This led to tours in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.

In the same year, I also recorded my first LP album.

During the 1960s, I met several pop acts and stars such as The Byrds and George Harrison of the Beatles.

In 1967, I performed a well-received set at a pop festival, where I was horrified to see Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage.

I opened a music school in Los Angeles, and published an autobiography in 1968.

In late 1970, the London Symphony Orchestra invited me to compose a concerto.

I was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for my work on the 1982 movie Gandhi.

The combination of George Harrison and India gave it away:

Ravi Shankar

That's correct, S2000magician! These would have been my remaining clues:

After George Harrison's death in 2001, I performed at the Concert for George, a celebration of Harrison's music staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

One of my daughters also became a successful musician, winning eight Grammy Awards in 2003.

I was an Indian sitar virtuoso and a composer, and became the world's best-known exponent of North Indian classical music.

My influence on George Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in Western pop music in the latter half of the 1960s.

American audiences probably know me best for my performance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.


The film trilogy mentioned above was the Apu Trilogy by Indian director Satyajit Ray, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers in history. Leslie and I once took 2 weeks off from work to attend back-to-back screenings of all Satyajit Ray’s most important movies at the Film Forum in NYC.

The 1967 pop festival was a 3-day event held at Monterey (co-produced by my late friend, John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas), which is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" and the public debut of the Hippie, Flower Power and Flower Children movements and era.

Ravi Shankar’s award-winning musician daughter is Norah Jones.

1. I was born in Tennessee.

2. I had two older sisters.

3. I played high school basketball.

Magic Johnson.

Not Earvin, but I like the guess. It turns out he was born in Michigan.

4. After graduating high school, I worked at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Chevy Chase

Dr. Fauci

Neither Mr. Chase nor Dr. Fauci.

5. The name by which I am best known was trademarked by the person who gave it to me.

Hmmm. OK . . .

6. My big break came when I was given a chance to fill in for someone who didn't show up for work one day.

Henry Winkler "The Fonz"?

Nope: not Fonzie.

7. As of 2013 I am no longer a US citizen.

Edward Snowden

Not Mr. Snowden, either.

8. I portrayed a character in a movie, in a rôle for which, amongst others, Tiny Tim was considered.

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9. Phil Spector considered my first single on his label to be his best work.

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10. For a while the group that I was in opened for The Rolling Stones.