MUMBAI (Reuters) - Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar posthumously won the Grammy for best world music album on Sunday, beating his daughter Anoushka and three other nominees on the music industry's ...

The new documentary about George Harrison, which airs this week on HBO, is garnering praise from across the media landscape (“a significant and substantially new take on the band and its most elusive ...

David Crosby was friends with George Harrison, and he also helped change the trajectory of his music career and life. After Crosby gave Harrison a Ravi Shankar album, Harrison and Shankar would go on ...

In the second volume in a series of free-flowing, ambient-tinged mini-albums, the composer—daughter of the late sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar—seeks out a new vocabulary for her instrument. Save ...

In the 30 years that have passed since she made her high-profile concert debut at the age of 13, Anoushka Shankar has released 10 solo albums, earned 11 Grammy Award nominations and performed multiple ...

When sitarist Anoushka Shankar talks about the pain of the artistic process, she’s not speaking figuratively, or existentially. She is being quite literal. “Ever since I was a kid, I've had this one ...

The daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has spent years exploring the instrument’s possibilities. Recording in Berlin with Arooj Aftab and Nils Frahm, she zeroes in on the nexus of music and ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and ...

“What Andrés Segovia is to the guitar, what Pablo Casals is to the cello, so Ravi Shankar is to the sitar. The master. The one who you might say revolutionized the instrument.” This is how Chicago ...