In an interview with the International Times in 1967, Harrison explained how Shankar was not only a music teacher but a spiritual teacher to him as well. For Harrison, music and spirituality were very ...

Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100... The Enduring Afterglow Of Ravi Shankar's Life In ...

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 ...

Ravi Shankar, master of the traditional Indian instrument the sitar and muse to the Beatles, died Tuesday at age 92. Dubbed the "godfather of world music" by George Harrison, Shankar is credited with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...