Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the ...

In a wide-ranging conversation, the 11-time Grammy nominee speaks with Vanity Fair about her collaborators, her famous family members, and the idea of “global music.” ...

Why is he a Trailblazer? The most famous sitar player of all time, trailblazer Ravi Shankar shared his passion for the sound and traditions of Hindustani classical music with the whole world.

Anoushka Shankar — does the masterful sitarist and daughter of the great Pandit Ravi Shankar really need ... playing other instruments apart from sitar? I played sitar and piano throughout ...