“On ‘Hollywood Dhun,’ you hear Raviji play a series of Bangledeshi folk melodies with great heart and soul, disturbed as he was about the situation in Bangledesh at the time (something he mentions in ...

Ravi Shankar, the legendary sitarist and composer is India's most esteemed musical Ambassador and a singular phenomenon in the classical music worlds of East and West. As a performer, composer, ...

Norah Jones, Philip Glass and Dhani Harrison are among the artists that will celebrate Ravi Shankar’s legacy with a series of worldwide centennial concerts. Jones — the daughter of the legendary ...

Ravi Shankar lived in and around Los Angeles for many years, teaching and performing his music. Occidental College posts a little remembrance today that connects the small size of Shankar's living ...

ENCINITAS, California (Reuters) - Ravi Shankar's daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, along with the wife of late Beatle George Harrison said their final goodbyes to the Indian sitar virtuoso ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- 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 and ...

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(AP) 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 a 10-decade ...