With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso, who died Tuesday at 92, mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon ...

“He was legend of legends,” Shivkumar Sharma, a noted santoor player who performed with Shankar, told Indian media. “Indian classical was not at all known in the Western world.

Ravi Shankar, the much-loved sitarist famous for bringing Indian music to the west, has died at 92 years old. Shankar died Tuesday at a hospital near his long-time home in Encinitas, California.

Virtuoso sitar player, Ravi Shankar inspired a new fascination with and appreciation for classical Indian music in Western popular culture. Judy Woodruff remembers the man who tutored Beatles ...

AMALA SHANKAR, Ravi Shankar's sister-in-law "We had a sweet relationship that is usual of a sister-in-law and brother-in-law. He used to pose like Lord Krishna for me. He was above all like a friend.

London-based sitar player Anoushka Shankar began performing in public when she was 13, almost 30 years ago, and was soon playing such major venues as the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

Anoushka Shankar is the daughter and protege of the renowned Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, who is credited with introducing Indian classical music to Western audiences.

NEW YORK -- The kids didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in the fabled summer of 1967. As ...

First Posted: 12/12/2012 3e3e9ebbb4f54ed2b297da5553d797ba.jpg (AP) Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing ...

Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight ...