I would land up fighting with everyone in England and get fired from everywhere. They told me people in Punjab were more loving and there were lesser ego problems there, so I came to Punjab. We had our old house in Chandigarh, in which I opened my office. I never wanted to become Honey Singh. I was just 5 feet 9 inches, but 93 kgs. I only wanted to become a music director and wanted to give India a rockstar. But I soon realised that the kind of music I wanted to make was different from both, the bhangra market in England and the rural market in Punjab, and, thus, no one accepted my music even here. With two lakhs, I started working as a music director for a Punjabi album.

His extraordinary musical journey took him from the banks of the sacred River Ganges in British India to the legendary Monterey and Woodstock festivals, where he played alongside the likes of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. 

At the height of his fame in the 1960s, when he was the darling of the hippie movement, he was described as "the most famous Indian musician on the planet" and his influence on pop music continues through his daughter, American singer Norah Jones. 

Shankar taught Harrison to play the sitar and collaborated with him on several projects, including the groundbreaking charity Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. The Beatles called him "The Godfather of World Music". 

Another collaborator, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, compared his genius and humanity to Mozart. 

Ravi Shankar was born into a high-caste Bengali family in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in northern India on April 7, 1920. 

He began his career at a young age, touring Europe with his brother Uday's dance troupe but returned to India in the late 1930s to study the sitar under the renowned musician Allaudin Khan. 

The 34-year-old singer, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, rocketed to international fame after "Gangnam Style", a techno ode to a trendy Seoul neighbourhood, become a worldwide hit following its debut in July. 

The video went viral online with its goofy signature horse-riding dance and on Friday ousted singer Jennifer Lopez's dance hit "On the Floor" from second place. But it still trails behind Canadian teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber's "Baby", which has had over 795 million hits. 

John Hirai, head of music at YouTube's Korea-Japan branch, told a conference in Seoul that Psy would pass Bieber on YouTube's most-watched list in about a month. 

The two recently met at a studio in Andheri and hit it off instantly over a common love for films and music. And when the actor learnt that the singer is hooked to gaming consoles, Khan later tweeted that he would gift Singh one.

Mika, who's understandably excited by the star's gesture, can't wait to lay his hands on the gift. He says, "I am a hardcore gaming freak. SRK will gift me the gaming console once I return from the US."

While Kim Kardashian drubbed reports about making a surprise appearance in the reality series, sources reveal that global celebrity making a special entry this season could be reggae king Sean Paul who's intent on making the most of his India sojourn. 

Interestingly the musical duo, Toshi-Sharib who were initially selected to be part of the opening act for the concert will no longer be part of the show since Toshi is one of the selected participants of the reality show.