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Ravi Shankar’s daughter Anoushka says she was sexually abused as a child: ‘Enough is enough. I am rising.’
The daughter of legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar said on Thursday in a video released for a global women’s rights campaign that she had been sexually abused as a child by a family friend. Anoushka Shankar, herself a famed sitar player who used to play with her late father, said…
Ravi Shankar to receive posthumous Grammy award
Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar is to receive a posthumous lifetime achievement Grammy award, organizers of the music industry’s top prize show said Wednesday. Three-time Grammy winner Shankar, who died Tuesday in California, is among seven artists including Carole King and the Temptations named as Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award honorees.…
Ravi Shankar: a short journey and a music sampler
One of the most influential musicians of the 20th Century has left us. RIP, Ravi Shankar. In the summer of 2001, my husband and I escaped to India for ten-day journey that included visits to Delhi, Dharamsala and Shimla. One of the things that made traveling in India different than…
Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar dies at 92
Indian sitar maestro who took instrument to the world and collaborated with western greats has died aged 92 in San Diego Ravi Shankar, who has died aged 92 in San Diego, was the Indian maestro who put the sitar on the musical map. George Harrison called him “the godfather of…
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