Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song "Within You Without You" on the Beatles' "Sgt ... who named his son Ravi in Shankar's honor, and became ...

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 ...

Ravi Shankar ... and compose. Shankar was already a respected classical musician when in 1966 Beatles guitarist George Harrison studied with him. Harrison later played the sitar on the Beatles ...

Today’s Google Doodle marks what would have been the 96th birthday of Pandit Ravi Shankar, the Indian musician who introduced The Beatles to the sitar. Pandit Ravi Shankar, or Robindro Shaunkor ...

NEW DELHI – 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) — 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 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI — Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie music icon of the '60s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a ...

Well, first, the Beatles ... of his brother Uday Shankar’s dance troupe. Shankar was in his teens when he quit touring as a dancer and began training on the sitar. “Ravi Shankar was certainly ...

Ravi Shankar, the sitar legend described as the “godfather of world music” by Beatles guitarist George Harrison, has died at 92. Shankar — the father of Grammy-winning musician Norah Jones ...

to Ravi, or sun. Harrison, who met Shankar in London in 1965 and then famously spent six weeks in India with him studying the sitar, called him "the godfather of world music." In 1967 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The kids at first didn’t seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar ... with the sitar, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song “Love You To” on the Beatles’ landmark ...