Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth. In a career that spanned decades and continents, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his ...

Ravi Shankarwas, without doubt, the “godfather of world music,” as former Beatle George Harrison once proclaimed. But this quietly charismatic Indian music legend,who was 92 when he died Tuesdaynight ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar posthumously won the Grammy for best world music album on Sunday, beating his daughter Anoushka and three other nominees on the music industry's ...

The title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is something of a ...

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 ...

Last month the music world lost one of its greatest treasures - - Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Best known in the U.S. for his association with The Beatles, Shankar crafted a musical legacy of ...

Who was George Harrison’s musical guru, Ravi Shankar? Music and spirituality were very connected for the Beatle. Harrison thought Shankar was a “brilliant” teacher. “Ravi Shankar is probably the ...

Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100... The Enduring Afterglow Of Ravi Shankar's Life In ...