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 ...

Long before all-star benefit concerts were commonplace fundraising events, Shankar and his friend George Harrison organized the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 to help refugees caught in that territory ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

When he was just 10 years old, Shankar began performing in Europe and the US with his family's Indian dance troupe. But at age 18, Shankar gave up... Ravi Shankar, Who Brought Eastern Music To Western ...

Ravi Shankar, the much-loved sitarist famous for bringing Indian music to the west, has died at 92 years old. Shankar died Tuesday at a hospital near his long-time home in Encinitas, California. Ravi ...

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.

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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 ...