Indian traditional instrument craftsman Sanjay Sharma places a fret on a sitar at his store Riki Ram's Music in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. For close to a 100 years Sharma's family has ...

NEW DELHI - 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 ...

The Ravi Shankar Ensemble—a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians curated by Anoushka and Sukanya Shankar— ...

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, ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. Ravi Shankar, who popularized the sitar and Indian music in America, died this week at the age of 92. He befriended the Beatles, gave ...

Sitar maestro and Oscar winner Ravi Shankar, dubbed the “godfather of world music” by George Harrison, who helped popularize North Indian classical music in the West, died today at San Diego’s Scripps ...

Ravi Shankar, the sitar legend described as the “godfather of world music” by Beatles guitarist George Harrison, has died at 92. Shankar — the father of Grammy-winning musician Norah Jones — died ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. IN THIS AUG. 3, 1967, FILE PHOTO, George Harrison of the Beatles, left, sits ...

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer. Ravi Shankar, the renowned master of the Indian sitar, turns 85 on Thursday. He is considered one ...

The kids at first 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.