# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/annapurna-devi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:39:06.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/annapurna-devi"
name: "Annapurna Devi"
slug: "annapurna-devi"
description: "Annapurna Devi was an Indian surbahar player of Hindustani classical music. She was given the name 'Annapurna' by Maharaja Brijnath Singh of the former Maihar Estate, and it was by this name that she was popularly known. She was the daughter and disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan, and the sister of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Pandit Ravi Shankar was her first husband, with whom she had a son, Shubhendra Shankar, who was an artist and a sitarist."
tagline: "Indian musician (1927-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Smt._Annapurna_Devi_assumed_charge_as_the_Union_Minister_for_Women_and_Child_development%2C_in_New_Delhi_on_June_11%2C_2024_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1927-04-23"
deathDate: "2018-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.64097866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump