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 ...

In an interview with the International Times in 1967, Harrison explained how Shankar was not only a music teacher but a spiritual teacher to him as well. For Harrison, music and spirituality were very ...

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 ...

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died ...

The music world is mourning the death of Ravi Shankar, the musician best known for bringing Indian sitar music to the masses and introducing it to the Beatles. Shankar passed away Tuesday night (Dec.

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 ...

Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, composer and teacher, died on December 11 at the age of 92 following heart surgery at a hospital in San Diego, California. He was a master of the sitar, best known for ...

World-famous musician Ravi Shankar was remembered Thursday at a public memorial service in San Diego County. Services began at 10:30 a.m. at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Encinitas, where Shankar ...

Ravi Shankar, the Indian musical icon who made the sitar famous, played with the Beatles and helped introduce “world music” to the masses, died Tuesday at age 92 in a San Diego hospital. Shankar had ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ENCINITAS, Calif. — A public memorial ...