NEW DELHI (AP) -- With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and ...

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 title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is something of a ...

It really is impossible to overstate the influence sitarist Ravi Shankar, who died Tuesday, had on the history of rock and roll, all the more impressive considering he accomplished it while playing an ...

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Indian Sun: The Life And Music Of Ravi Shankar Oliver Craske 658 Pages ISBN: 978-0-571-35085-8 Faber & Faber2020 The title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi ...

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The daughter and living legacy of Ravi Shankar will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Phillips Center The first time Anoushka Shankar held a sitar in her hands proved to be a meaningful — albeit ...

Anoushka Shankar may be the less famous of sitar icon Ravi Shankar’s musical daughters — her half-sister is Norah Jones. But she remains a star in her own right, bringing a fresh approach to her ...

The daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has spent years exploring the instrument’s possibilities. Recording in Berlin with Arooj Aftab and Nils Frahm, she zeroes in on the nexus of music and ...