Musician Ravi Shankar Dead at 92. Indian sitar virtuoso is credited with connecting the Western world with traditional Indian music. 12/12/2012. Share: Transcript for Musician Ravi Shankar Dead at 92. -- sad news to pass along this morning an
Ravi Shankar spent much of his adult life outside India, earning generations of fans in the United States and Europe. A tour of The Times's archives chronicles those decades. Read more
Pandit Ravi Shankar's life, which traversed nearly a century, ended Tuesday. The legendary sitar player, who taught Beatle George Harrison how to play the stringed instrument and brought Indian music to the West, passed away at age 92 in the early
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 spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced
Ravi Shankar, the sitar master who helped popularize Indian music in the 1960s, influencing hippie culture and musicians from the Beatles and the Grat.
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