NEW DELHI Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a ...

Ravi Shankar did more than play music. He opened up a whole world. It’s safe to say that his pinging, quavering sitar music was the first sound many in Europe and the Americas ever heard from the ...

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 ...

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California. Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, ...

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, ...

Ravi Shankar, the legendary sitar player, died Monday, his family said in a statement. Dubbed the "Godfather of World Music," Shankar was 92 years old. In a career that spanned six decades, Shankar ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The late Indian music virtuoso Ravi Shankar taught as a visiting professor at the City College of New York at the height of the hippie era during the 1960s. Shankar died in San ...

Sitar master and composer Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at a hospital near his home in the San Diego area. Shankar's foundation released a statement that says the musician had suffered from ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and longtime Encinitas resident who played an influential role for The Beatles, has died, his family announced. He was 92. Shankar, the father of ...