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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...