This color capture features Ravi Shankar playing sitar at Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North 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 honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.