This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. Ravi Shankar, who popularized the sitar and Indian music in America, died this week at the age of 92. He befriended the Beatles ...

Ravi Shankar, the man who made traditional Indian sitar music popular worldwide ... triple the 10,000 hours that it supposedly takes to master any skill. He was already Indian’s most famous ...

Ravi Shankar did more than play ... the first international pop star to use a sitar, on the 1965 Beatle song “Norwegian Wood.” But the Indian master’s overall sound came to influence a ...

It's absolutely like a prayer. 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 ...

Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop ...

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar master who built a global following and pioneered the charity concert, has died. His official website carried this statement: "With profound grief and sorrow ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. Ravi Shankar, who popularized the sitar and Indian music in America, died this week at the age of 92. He befriended the Beatles ...

Ravi Shankar, who died Tuesday, talked to Fresh Air about hippies, psychedelic drugs, "Norwegian Wood," George Harrison, his fond memories of the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 and his less-fond ...

I had the great fortune to see Ravi Shankar several times over the last 30 years. Unquestionably the most impressive of any musical performance I have ever seen was his benefit concert in Long ...