Biography
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The "crème de la crème"
of the entertainment industry frequently calls on Ravi. Mercury Records/PolyGram
hired him in 1997 to play guitar on tour with three-time Grammy nominee
Hanson
(the top selling band in the world that year). Simon & Schuster
published his tour journal/autobiography. Several music trade magazines
feature Ravi's articles, and he has a monthly column in Music Inc.
magazine. Pepperdine University, Berklee College of Music,
and others including National Association of Music Merchants
(NAMM) and most music business conferences host his lectures
(www.ArtisticIntegrity.org).
The world's largest manufacturer of guitars and pianos, Samick, sought
out Ravi to represent Greg Bennett Guitars as the brand's national
electric guitar
clinician. TrueFire contracted Ravi to film several
long-form guitar instructional videos and join their faculty of world
famous guitarists. Most recently, the Baltimore Music Conference asked
Ravi to deliver the Keynote Address. Ravi, of Indian and German descent (and grand nephew of Indias first Prime Minister, Nehru), was born in Washington, DC. He grew up in a "Wall Street" family (his two older brothers and father work in finance), but Ravi traveled down a very different road.
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