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 ...

The daughter of Ravi Shankar, a cross-cultural innovator who made Indian music popular throughout the world (his Western fans included a band called the Beatles), she first picked up the sitar at ...

sitar, bansuri (bamboo flute) and percussion for the Indian colour, plus violin, cello, clarinet and keyboards for the more expansive filmic moments. Shankar’s famous musician father Ravi also wrote ...

Veteran musician Norah Jones, daughter of Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, was nominated in ... Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Japanese artist Yoko Ono, was involved in the production ...

India at the GrammysThe late sitar maestro Ravi Shankar holds the record for most Grammys won by an Indian, with five, including a Lifetime Achievement Award. The late tabla maestro Zakir Hussain ...

She joined forces with South African flautist Wouter Kellerman and Japanese cellist Eru Matsumoto to present ... Interestingly, this year she was nominated with producer Ricky Kej, sitar player ...

This guitar, built by Japan’s famed Fujigen Gakki ... It earned its nickname when Anoushka Shankar, sitar virtuoso and daughter of Ravi Shankar, autographed it. “This is one of my prized ...

George Harrison had been contacted by his musical guru Ravi Shankar ... the hip young crowd at MSG appaluded the sound of sitar master Shankar tuning up, thinking it was one of his songs.

John Lennon’s younger son Sean wasn’t immune to the music bug either, and with Yoko Ono as a mother, he was also exposed to traditional Japanese ... Shankar is the daughter of sitar virtuoso ...

Pictures of young Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi enjoying Kwality ice cream at India Gate, sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar with Peter Sellers and ... in Bandra will whisk you off to the streets of ...