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 ...

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In a 1999 interview, Ravi Shankar, who died Tuesday, talked to Fresh Air about hippies, psychedelic drugs, "Norwegian Wood," George Harrison, his... Ravi Shankar: Remembering A Master Of The Sitar ...

Ravi Shankar was one of the first musicians to enlighten Western listeners about Indian music. Without him, "Paint it Black" and "Norwegian Wood" would sound incomplete. The sitar maestro died from ...

When the sitar entered Beatles music, it was immediately treated in the West as a symbol. But to Ravi Shankar, it was never symbolic. It was a demanding classical instrument rooted in lineage, years ...

The multiple Grammy winner received a lifetime achievement honor Wednesday from the Recording Academy. “It’s one of the biggest losses for the music world,” said Kartic Seshadri, a Shankar protege, ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- 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 ...