As news of Ravi Shankar's death at 92 spread, musicians and other public figures expressed sympathy and paid homage to the sitar legend. Singer/songwriter Norah Jones, Shankar's daughter, issued ...

NEW DELHI – With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon … ...

Ravi Shankar, the Grammy Award-winning Indian sitar virtuoso who became the world’s leading representative of South Asian music, exerted a major influence on popular music in the 1960s and was ...

The concerts will incorporate visuals featuring rare audio and video materials from the Ravi Shankar archives, alongside his iconic music. “Ravi Shankar’s influence extends beyond music, encompassing ...

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western musicians – both classical and rock – made him a familiar concert name by the late ’60s and earned him the ...

Vikrant Massey has started shooting for 'White', a biopic on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. According to sources, the actor is ...

Pandit Ravi Shankar died Tuesday, December 11, at age 92. The legendary sitar player brought Indian music to the West and taught Beatle George Harrison how to play the instrument.

Legendary sitarist, Ravi Shankar, had to keep his thoughts about The Beatles' 'Norwegian Wood' quiet. He was just starting to teach the group's George Harrison to play the sitar after all.

“The impulse for writing this book came out of this time I spent in Hartford Correctional and the men I met,” Ravi Shankar, an English lecturer at Tufts and a Pushcart prize-winning poet, said. “I had ...

“Beauty” seemed somehow insufficient a description for the sounds that came from Ravi Shankar’s sitar in a concert hall. It was as if nature itself were being replicated on the stage ...

Ravi Shankar, the renowned master of the Indian sitar, turns 85 on Thursday. He is considered one of the world's greatest musicians, and continues to give concerts, tour, teach and compose.

Ravi Shankar is celebrated in the new song "Inside the Endless Om," recorded by Johnny Irion, Jeff Bridges and others influenced by the Indian musician. Everett/Shutterstock ...