Ravi Shankar Autographs
Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.
Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for scoring the blockbuster Gandhi (1982).
In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in Western pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform until the end of his life. He was a recipient of numerous prestigious musical accolades, including a Polar Music Prize and four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for The Concert for Bangladesh in 1973.
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Current items with a signature of Ravi Shankar
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Traded items with a signature of Ravi Shankar
The most expensive item with a signature of Ravi Shankar (1968 SCARCE RAVI SHANKAR CONTRACT SIGNED SITAR INDIAN KINNARA AUTOGRAPH BEATLES) was sold in March 2025 for $6,677.14 while the cheapest item (Ravi Shankar Signed The Sounds of India Vinyl Record Album Autograph JSA LOA) found a new owner for $7.54 in November 2016. The month with the most items sold (2) was May 2022 with an average selling price of $88.75 for an autographed item of Ravi Shankar. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2026 with $550.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $12.00 was March 2009. In average, an autographed item from Ravi Shankar is worth $139.95.
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | My Music My Life by Ravi Shankar -Limited Ed. # 118 of 250 Copies Signed By Ravi | $193.00 |  |
| My Music My Life by Ravi Shankar -Limited Ed. # 118 of 250 Copies Signed By Ravi | $193.00 | |
 | My Music, My Life by Ravi Shankar *LIMITED EDITION SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY* | $234.95 | |
| My Music, My Life by Ravi Shankar *LIMITED EDITION SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY* | $234.95 | |
| My Music, My Life by Ravi Shankar *LIMITED EDITION SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY* | $249.95 | |
| My Music, My Life by Ravi Shankar *LIMITED EDITION SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY* | $249.95 | |
 | Ravi Shankar / My Music My Life Signed 1st Edition 2007 | $550.00 | |
| Ravi Shankar / My Music My Life Signed 1st Edition 2007 | $550.00 | |
| Ravi Shankar SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED EXCLUSIVE 8x10 Glossy Photo Sitar Master Pundit1 | $139.95 | |
| Ravi Shankar SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED EXCLUSIVE 8x10 Glossy Photo Sitar Master Pundit1 | $139.95 | |
| Ravi Shankar SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED EXCLUSIVE 8x10 Glossy Photo Sitar Master Pundit2 | $139.95 | |
| Ravi Shankar SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED EXCLUSIVE 8x10 Glossy Photo Sitar Master Pundit2 | $139.95 | |
| Ravi Shankar- SIGNED - Postcard Photo - Master of the classical sitar -Woodstock | $45.00 | |
| Signed and Numbered limited edition of 'My Music, My Life' by Ravi Shankar | $200.00 | |
| Signed and Numbered limited edition of 'My Music, My Life' by Ravi Shankar | $200.00 | |
