The Recording Academy awarded the Lifetime Achievement award to the Ravi Shankar on February 9th at the 55th Grammy Awards Ceremony – something he learned of with delight and gratitude just one week before his passing in December of 2012. Starting in the early decades of the 20th century as a member of his brother Uday’s dance troupe, the Maestro’s career spanned some of the most important eras of East-West world music collaboration. During that time he won two Grammys – Best Chamber Music Performance in 1968 with Yehudi Menuhin for West Meets East (left, accepting with Alla Rakha) and for Album of the Year with George Harrison for Concert for Bangladesh. He went on in 2002 to win the Best World Music Grammy for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall and kept going strong into 2011 with the release of THE LIVING ROOM SESSIONS PART I (winner for Best World Music Grammy!).