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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chapter III, however, is resolutely not buried in the traditional Indian sounds which were first brought to the attention of Western audiences by Anoushka’s father, Ravi. That said, there certainly ...

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 ...

Anoushka Shankar begin studying sitar with her father at the age of seven, when the instrument was bigger than she. Having made her public debut aged 13, for Ravi Shankar’s 75th birthday concert, she ...

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