Crap - RIP - Ravi Shankar

Lived a good life though -- 92 years. From The Washington Post:

Ravi Shankar, Grammy-winning Indian sitar virtuoso, dies at 92
Ravi Shankar, the Grammy Award-winning Indian sitar virtuoso who became the world�s leading representative of South Asian music, exerted a major influence on popular music in the 1960s and was the father of the jazz-pop musician Norah Jones, died Tuesday. He was 92.

Stuart Wolferman, a spokesman for Mr. Shankar, said he died at a hospital near his home in Encinitas, Calif. The cause of death was not immediately available.

Had the great joy of seeming Ravi perform several times back when I lived on the East Coast. Amazing musician. I also had the wonder of seeing his (at that time) teenage daughter Anoushka Shankar perform near Seattle in the 90's -- she came out, did a few little diddles and then proceeded to rip open the vault of heaven with her music. Very powerful performer for one so young. Ravi's Wikipedia page has a lot of information. His work is not played as much these days as it should. Check it out...