who was the first indian to win a grammy award for his performance titled east meets west
Ravi Shankar
title: West Meets East text: chart (later the "Billboard" 200), where it peaked at number 161. In February 1968, the album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, the first time that an Asian musician had won a Grammy. This recognition coincided with a period of heightened interest in Indian classical music, and particularly Shankar,<ref name="Hunt/Ravi AM">Ken Hunt, "Ravi Shankar", AllMusic (retrieved 1 December 2013).</ref> as Western pop and rock bands such as the Beatles, the Byrds, the Rolling Stones and Traffic all adopted sitar or other aspects of the genre into their sound. In July 1968, Angel Records announced that "West title: Native American Music Awards text: Native American Music Awards include: Nile Rodgers, Richie Havens, Wayne Newton, Jennifer Warnes, Bruce Cockburn, Crystal Gayle, Kitty Wells, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Janice Marie Johnson of A Taste of Honey, KC of KC and the Sunshine Band, Little Steven Van Zandt, Nokie Edwards, and more. The dedicated Native American Music Awards successfully proposed the Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album in 2000. The Native American Music Awards or N.A.M.A. was the first national awards program for Native American music in North America. The Awards was born out of a need for greater recognition for Native title: West Meets East text: West Meets East West Meets East is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in Britain in January 1967. It was recorded following their successful duet in June 1966 at the Bath Musical Festival, where they had played some of the same material. The album was issued in America on EMI's Angel Records imprint in June 1967. "West Meets East" was number 1 on "Billboard"s Best Selling Classical LP's list for eighteen weeks in 1967 and continued to top that chart through January the following year. It also placed on the mainstream national title: Bhanu Athaiya text: Best Costume Design (shared with John Mollo) for her work in the 1982 film, "Gandhi". She became the first Indian to win an Academy Award. She also won two National Film Awards, in 1991 and 2002. In March 2010, Athaiya released her book "The Art of Costume Design", published by Harper Collins. On 13 January 2013, Athaiya presented a copy of the book to the Dalai Lama. On 23 February 2012, it was reported that Athaiya wished to return her Academy Award to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because she felt that her family will not be title: Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album text: Ellen Bello, founder of the Native American Music Awards and the Native American Music Association, the Grammy award was first presented to Tom Bee and Douglas Spotted Eagle in 2001 as the producers of the compilation album "Gathering of Nations Pow Wow". Previously, Native American recordings had been placed in the folk, world or new-age music categories. While some Native American artists criticized the award category for being "too narrowly defined to accommodate the breadth of today's Indian music", others took pride in its inclusion. The name of the award remained unchanged between 2001 and 2011. According to the category