Kamala Chakravarty was born on Saraswati Kamala Shastri, 1928 and is an Indian classical musician and former dancer, known for her association with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.
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12 Facts About Kamala Chakravarty
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Kamala Chakravarty lived with Shankar as his "wife" from 1967 to 1981, while he was still married to musician and teacher Annapurna Devi.
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Kamala Chakravarty is the younger sister of noted Hindustani classical vocalist Lakshmi Shankar.
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Kamala Chakravarty was married to Bombay film director Amiya Chakravarty from 1945 until Amiya's death in 1957.
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At Almora in 1941, Kamala Chakravarty attended the wedding of Lakshmi, then aged fifteen, to Uday's brother Rajendra, where she met the youngest of the Shankar brothers, the future sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.
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Economic effects of World War II forced the academy's closure in 1944, after which Kamala Chakravarty moved to Calcutta and then joined her sister and brothers-in-law in Malad, near Bombay.
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Physical attraction grew between Shankar and Kamala Chakravarty, causing his family to hastily arrange a marriage between her and Bombay film director Amiya Kamala Chakravarty.
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Kamala Chakravarty helped run his Kinnara School of Music from 1963 onwards, and after Shankar left Devi in 1967, they lived together until 1981, for much of the time in the United States.
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Kamala Chakravarty accompanied Shankar, on tambura or as a singer, on several of his recordings and international performances.
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Kamala Chakravarty subsequently contributed to the recording of the same piece, "Raga Piloo", for Menuhin and Shankar's album West Meets East, Volume 2.
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That same year, Kamala Chakravarty participated in the recording of the third volume of Shankar and Menuhin's West Meets East series, issued in 1977.
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