Baby boomers may remember classical sitar player Ravi Shankar from his legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, or his influence on popular music culture at the time.
“Ravi Shankar: A Life in Music,” now on exhibit at the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live, provides a heady aural and visual experience as it boldly attempts a near-impossible task. Put simply, how to do ...
Perhaps the key figure in global pop music’s embrace of fluid, immersive sound and oceanic drift over the past several decades, virtuoso sitar player Ravi Shankar has died at age 92, according to the ...
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 ...