What was Ravi Shankar famous for? Ravi Shankar was born in Benares, India, on April 7, 1920. He spent his childhood studying music and dance, but he gave up the latter when he turned 18. He studied ...

Songwriter Sanctuary at Normal Heights United Methodist Church. March 27. Songwriter Sanctuary is a monthly, ...

Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and The Beatles had a meaningful relationship. Without Shankar’s influence, The Beatles might not have experimented with new sounds. George first heard Indian music in ...

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 ...

The late Ravi Shankar was a sitar player and leading figure in 20th century Indian classical music, who influenced audiences ...

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“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 ...

Ravi Shankar became the most unlikely of Western pop stars: a middle-aged master of the sitar largely unknown outside South Asia who suddenly found himself hanging out with the biggest rock acts of ...

Earlier this week Ravi Shankar announced his candidacy for Vallejo Mayor. Shankar joins a race that features former Vallejo City Council member and current realtor Pippin Dew, along with Andrea Sorce, ...