Sitarist, and AKA singer Norah Jones father, at 92.
Ravi Shankar, a master of the sitar who brought the music of India to the Western world in the 1960s aided by a mystical collaboration with George Harrison, has died. He was 92.
Shankar died Tuesday at Scripps Memorial Hospital outside San Diego. His website said that Shankar was suffering from upper-respiratory and heart issues during the past year and had undergone heart-valve replacement surgery last week.
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Shankar died Tuesday at Scripps Memorial Hospital outside San Diego. His website said that Shankar was suffering from upper-respiratory and heart issues during the past year and had undergone heart-valve replacement surgery last week.
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