Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the ...

Why is he a Trailblazer? The most famous sitar player of all time, trailblazer Ravi Shankar shared his passion for the sound and traditions of Hindustani classical music with the whole world.

Harrison (left) and Boyd (right) went to India so he could play the sitar under Ravi Shankar (middle) A sitar owned and played by George Harrison has been sold for $62,500 (£46,581) in the United ...

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London-based sitar player Anoushka Shankar began performing ... In those appearances, she usually accompanied her father, Ravi Shankar, the world’s leading sitarist until his death in 2012.

A year later, Harrison travelled to India to learn how to play the instrument under the renowned sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. In an interview with the BBC's Mark Tully in April 2000, Shankar said ...

Rock will never be the same again. The twang of Indian music, formerly known to Americans exclusively through Ravi Shankar and his sitar, has suffused popular music. The product is "raga-rock," a ...

For more than two decades, singer-musician Norah Jones has soothed her listeners’ ears. She lets her fingers delicately caress the piano keys while her calm, jazz-inspired lyric soprano wraps around ...

How Chicago’s marathon of Indian classical music became a focus of artistry and community, in the words of the people who’ve made it happen ...

feature film, that Harrison first came into the orbit of the sitar. After listening to the work of Ravi Shankar, the renowned Bengali-Indian virtuoso, George was hooked: "I had bought a very cheap ...

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Why is he a Trailblazer? The most famous sitar player of all time, trailblazer Ravi Shankar shared his passion for the sound and traditions of Hindustani classical music with the whole world.