Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the ...

In a wide-ranging conversation, the 11-time Grammy nominee speaks with Vanity Fair about her collaborators, her famous family ...

“The first person who ever impressed me in my life was Ravi Shankar,” he said, “and he was the only person who didn’t try to impress me.” The master Indian musician, who did more to ...

World music is now an outdated term. Why should Korean folk be clubbed in with West African griot music when all they share in common is a sense of the exotic to a Western ear? But when George ...

A new video from the BBC is honouring the master Indian musician Ravi Shankar on his centennial. Rare footage provided by The Ravi Shankar Foundation includes an intimate moment between the artist ...

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It often brings together music from different parts of the world. Ravi Shankar was an influential Indian musician who created fusions between Indian Hindustani and western music. He was a big ...

Don’t try to be a master ... tabla player in Ravi Shankar’s ensemble. Hussain was just 12 when he began touring professionally as a musician in his native India as part of a vaudeville ...