title: Vilayat Khan
Shankar Family &amp; Friends
Nikhil Banerjee
Ananda Shankar (album)
Annapurna Devi
P. Ravi Shankar
Hiren Roy
Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000
Ravi Shankar's Festival from India
Tana Mana
sentences: Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was one of India's well known sitar maestros.
 Along with Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Nikhil Banerjee and his younger brother Imrat Khan, Vilayat Khan helped introduce Indian Classical Music to the West.
Shankar Family & Friends (stylised as Shankar Family Friends on the album cover) is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, recorded primarily in Los Angeles during the spring of 1973, but not released until late 1974.
 It was produced by Shankar's friend George Harrison and one of the first releases on the ex-Beatle's Dark Horse label.
 Out of print for many years, and much sought after as a result, the album was remastered in 2010 and reissued as part of the Ravi Shankar–George Harrison box set "Collaborations".
Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (Bengali: নিখিল রঞ্জন ব্যানার্জী ) (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana.
 A student of the legendary Baba Allauddin Khan, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was known for his technical virtuosity and clinical execution.
 Along with Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, he emerged as one of the leading exponents of the sitar.
 He was a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.
Ananda Shankar is the debut album by Indian musician Ananda Shankar, the son of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and the nephew of Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar.
 It was released in 1970 on the Reprise record label.
 The album is a fusion of Indian music with Western rock and electronic music, and was among the first works in the rock genre by an Indian musician.
 Consisting mainly of instrumental recordings featuring sitar and Moog synthesizer, it includes a cover version of the Rolling Stones' 1968 hit song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and a thirteen-minute Indian-style piece titled "Sagar (The Ocean)".
Annapurna Devi (born Roshanara Khan on 16 April 1927), is an Indian surbahar (bass sitar) player of Hindustani Classical Music.
 She is the daughter and disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of Maihar gharana, and from 1941 to 1962 was married to sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, also one of her father's disciples.
 After her divorce, she never performed again in public.
 She moved to Mumbai, became a recluse and started teaching.
 Over the years she has had notable disciples: Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nityanand Haldipur, Nikhil Banerjee, Amit Bhattacharya, Pradeep Barot and Saswatti Saha (Sitar).
P. Ravi Shankar (born Pudipeddi Ravi Shankar Sarma) also known as Kempegowda Ravi, Armuga Ravishankar or Bommali Ravi Shankar, Sai Ravi is an Indian film actor, dubbing artist, director and writer.
 He rose to fame from 2011 blockbuster Kempegowda starring Sudeep.
 He has also acted in a few Telugu and Tamil films.
 He dubbed for over 2600 films with more than 1000 films each in Telugu and Tamil languages.
 He dubbed for over 150 films each in Kannada films.
Hiren Roy (1920–1992) was for many years considered to be the best sitar maker in India.
 Many great musicians, including Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Annapurna Devi, and Ravi Shankar, have sworn by his creations.
Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 is a live album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released in 2001 through the record label Angel Records.
 Recorded at Carnegie Hall in October 2000 as part of a tour with Shankar's daughter Anoushka, the album contains five tracks and presents two "ragas".
 The concert occurred sixty-two years after Shankar's first performance at Carnegie Hall and commemorated his eightieth birthday; the album was his first live recording in nearly twenty years.
 "Full Circle" was produced by Hans Wendl, mastered by Scott Hull, and mixed and engineered by Tom Lazarus.
 Featured are performances by Tanmoy Bose and Bickram Ghosh on "tabla", and Anoushka and Ravi on "sitar".
Ravi Shankar's Festival from India is a double album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released on World Pacific Records in December 1968.
 It contains studio recordings made by a large ensemble of performers, many of whom Shankar had brought to the United States from India.
 Among the musicians were Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki, Palghat Raghu, Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha.
 The project presented Indian classical music in an orchestral setting, so recalling Shankar's work as musical director of All India Radio in the years before he achieved international fame as a soloist during the 1960s.
Tana Mana is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to "the Ravi Shankar Project" and released in 1987.
 The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and sampling technology.
 Shankar recorded much of "Tana Mana" in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project.
 The album title translates to mean "body and mind".

Question: Question: When was the Indian musician; exponent of the sitar; and contemporary of Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee who had the initials V. K. born? 

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 Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was one of India's well known sitar maestros.
 Along with Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Nikhil Banerjee and his younger brother Imrat Khan, Vilayat Khan helped introduce Indian Classical Music to the West. 

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 Shankar Family & Friends (stylised as Shankar Family Friends on the album cover) is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, recorded primarily in Los Angeles during the spring of 1973, but not released until late 1974.
 It was produced by Shankar's friend George Harrison and one of the first releases on the ex-Beatle's Dark Horse label.
 Out of print for many years, and much sought after as a result, the album was remastered in 2010 and reissued as part of the Ravi Shankar–George Harrison box set "Collaborations". 

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 Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee (Bengali: নিখিল রঞ্জন ব্যানার্জী ) (14 October 1931 – 27 January 1986) was an Indian classical sitarist of the Maihar Gharana.
 A student of the legendary Baba Allauddin Khan, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was known for his technical virtuosity and clinical execution.
 Along with Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, he emerged as one of the leading exponents of the sitar.
 He was a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan. 

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 Ananda Shankar is the debut album by Indian musician Ananda Shankar, the son of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and the nephew of Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar.
 It was released in 1970 on the Reprise record label.
 The album is a fusion of Indian music with Western rock and electronic music, and was among the first works in the rock genre by an Indian musician.
 Consisting mainly of instrumental recordings featuring sitar and Moog synthesizer, it includes a cover version of the Rolling Stones' 1968 hit song "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and a thirteen-minute Indian-style piece titled "Sagar (The Ocean)". 

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 P. Ravi Shankar (born Pudipeddi Ravi Shankar Sarma) also known as Kempegowda Ravi, Armuga Ravishankar or Bommali Ravi Shankar, Sai Ravi is an Indian film actor, dubbing artist, director and writer.
 He rose to fame from 2011 blockbuster Kempegowda starring Sudeep.
 He has also acted in a few Telugu and Tamil films.
 He dubbed for over 2600 films with more than 1000 films each in Telugu and Tamil languages.
 He dubbed for over 150 films each in Kannada films. 

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 Hiren Roy (1920–1992) was for many years considered to be the best sitar maker in India.
 Many great musicians, including Nikhil Banerjee, Vilayat Khan, Annapurna Devi, and Ravi Shankar, have sworn by his creations. 

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 Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 is a live album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released in 2001 through the record label Angel Records.
 Recorded at Carnegie Hall in October 2000 as part of a tour with Shankar's daughter Anoushka, the album contains five tracks and presents two "ragas".
 The concert occurred sixty-two years after Shankar's first performance at Carnegie Hall and commemorated his eightieth birthday; the album was his first live recording in nearly twenty years.
 "Full Circle" was produced by Hans Wendl, mastered by Scott Hull, and mixed and engineered by Tom Lazarus.
 Featured are performances by Tanmoy Bose and Bickram Ghosh on "tabla", and Anoushka and Ravi on "sitar". 

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 Ravi Shankar's Festival from India is a double album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released on World Pacific Records in December 1968.
 It contains studio recordings made by a large ensemble of performers, many of whom Shankar had brought to the United States from India.
 Among the musicians were Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki, Palghat Raghu, Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha.
 The project presented Indian classical music in an orchestral setting, so recalling Shankar's work as musical director of All India Radio in the years before he achieved international fame as a soloist during the 1960s. 

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Answer: 28 August 1928