Today would have been Pandit Ravi Shankar’s 96th birthday – one of the best sitar players of all time ... Indonesia and Japan. The virtuoso was the youngest of five brothers, born in Benares ...

Always ahead of his time, Ravi Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra ... the Fukuoka grand Prize from Japan, the Crystal award from Davos, with the title 'Global Ambassador' to ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92 ... Now, Indonesian music is around, Chinese music is around, Japanese music is around, but the sitar and the ragas of Indian music really ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A memorial has been held for Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar near his home in ... Music // 1 day ago Aespa makes Japanese debut with 'Hot Mess' single, music video July 3 ...

Contrary to popular beliefs, George Harrison was introduced to the sitar a while before meeting Pandit Ravi Shankar, even having played the instrument in the 1965 The Beatles‘ song Norwegian Wood.

NEW DELHI, Dec 12: Sitar legend Ravi Shankar died on Tuesday near his home ... in Europe and North America in 1956, and Japan in 1958. Yehudi Menuhin, John Coltrane and Philip Glass, among many ...

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 ...

But Ravi Shankar remained the unchallenged ... Now, Indonesian music is around, Chinese music is around, Japanese music is around, but the sitar and the ragas of Indian music really took the ...