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 ...

Ravi Shankar, the much-loved sitarist famous for bringing Indian music to the west, has died at 92 years old. Shankar died Tuesday at a hospital near his long-time home in Encinitas, California. Ravi ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The walls of Sanjay Sharma’s music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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Arijit Singh’s surprise appearance at Anoushka Shankar’s Kolkata concert - his first public performance since announcing his ...

Long before all-star benefit concerts were commonplace fundraising events, Shankar and his friend George Harrison organized the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 to help refugees caught in that territory ...

(AP) Ravi Shankar was the master of the sitar the sitar that Sanjay Sharma made. Like his grandfather and father before him, Sharma built, tuned and fixed instruments for the virtuoso, who introduced ...

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 spearheaded the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- The kids didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A.