Samsung has started selling its recently announced Galaxy Music Duos phone in India at a price of Rs 9,199. The company is selling the phone through its online store - Samsung India e-store. ...
05:28 PM, Dec 26, 2012
The man is said to have travelled to the Caribbean island specifically to try to meet the star. ...
11:15 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Encinitas, California: Ravi Shankar's daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, along with the wife of late Beatle George Harrison said their final goodbyes to the sitar virtuoso on Thursday at a public memorial service in Encinitas, California. The legendary musician and composer, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaboration with The Beatles, died on December 11 in Southern California. He was 92. About 700 people...
10:50 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Los Angeles: Google is turning on a "scan and match" service for Google Music users to store copies of their songs online, offering for free what Apple charges $25 a year for. The service, which launched Tuesday, cuts uploading time for those who want to save their music libraries online. It scans a user's computer and gives them online access to the songs it finds, as long as they match...
10:35 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Senior film journalist Sreedhar Pillai joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the music composed by AR Rahman for Tamil film 'Kadal'. Q. Sir, how about Telugu version of 'Kadal' audio, is it already released simultaneously with Tamil? Asked by: M.Z Ahmed A. I think it will be launched shortly. Q. Why Rahman takes much time to compose music for movies? He hardly compose 2-3 movies a year, what else...
05:22 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Kolkata: Kolkata's Dum Dum correctional home is following a unique way of reforming the lives of its inmates. It helps them polish their musical skills. Inmates have also come out with their own album. From an inmate to an artist, music has given them a new identity. 46-year-old Sujit Doloi has spent 12 years behind bars, battling depression and loneliness. Now he has found solace in music. "I am very...
09:10 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Indian classical musician and Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple Pandit Barun Kumar Pal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music. Q. When did you last speak to him? And if not very personal, could you share some of the things you talked about? Asked by: Kunjram A. It was last Tuesday, he was eager to know about the health situation of...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Albuquerque: An imprisoned man whose infatuation with Justin Bieber included a tattoo of the pop star on his leg has told investigators in New Mexico he hatched a plot to kill the singer, according to documents recently filed in a New Mexico court. An affidavit filed in Las Cruces said Dana Martin told investigators he persuaded a man he met in prison and the man's nephew to kill Bieber, along...
08:46 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Did Pandit Ravi Shankar show the way as to how the classical arts can be kept alive in the contemporary world? ...
11:59 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is grieving the demise of Pandit Ravi Shankar, says he was puzzled to receive the sitar maestro's call for the first time a week before the music legend's demise. He never knew it would be his last. "A strange feeling crawls within me. Just last week his wife Sukanyaji had sent a message to me on my mobile, while I transited from Marrakech, Morocco...
06:13 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New York: Pop star Britney Spears edged past Taylor Swift to claim the title of top-earning woman in music after bringing in an estimated $58 million from her album, endorsements and a perfume in the past year, Forbes said on Wednesday. Country-pop singer Swift, 22, was a close second with an estimated $57 million paycheck thanks to her tour - which made more than $1 million each night - a...
01:04 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Gurgaon: On their maiden trip to India, American rock band Guns N' Roses on Wednesday took their fans on a roller coaster ride by belting out their old hits like 'Sweet Child of Mine' and 'November Rain'. Notoriously famous for being late for their performances across the world, the band surprisingly started the show on time. Performing in front of 5000-odd people, the band also played their songs 'Paradise City',...
07:16 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Pandit Ravi Shankar's daughter-in-law Tanushree Shankar says that the death of the sitar maestro is not only a loss to his family but to the entire artist family. "May be he grew in numbers but at heart he was absolutely a young dynamic and vibrant person," she said. ...
04:59 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Purbayan has performed all over the world and his music has been appreciated by jazz artists Chick Corea, Bela Fleck, and Pat Metheny. He has performed several times with Ustad Zakir Hussain. A disciple of the Maihar Gharana, the school that Pandit Ravi Shankar also came from, he interacted with IBNLive readers on the sitar maestro's role in taking Indian classical music to a global audience. Q. The strings of...
03:36 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Legendary sitarist and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar died near his home in Southern California on Tuesday. He was 92. He stood just 5 feet 3 inches tall but Ravi Shankar was a towering musical figure and was famously known as Pandit Ravi Shankar. ...
01:30 PM, Dec 12, 2012
With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Pandit Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century.From George Harrison to John Coltrane, from Yehudi Menuhin to David Crosby, his connections reflected music's universality, though a gap persisted between Shankar...
01:10 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: With the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, passes an era of Hindustani classical music - an era which saw the Indian musical artform going global in the true sense of the word. Ravi Shankar, born as Robindro Shounkor Chowdhury to a Bengali Brahmin family in Varanasi in 1920, was the last of the surviving ambassadors of that movement. Ravi Shankar's exposure to the world of Indian culture was...
12:29 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar died on Wednesday morning IST in San Diego in the United States at the age of 92 years. Pandit Ravi Shankar was in the US with his family for a surgery. Pandit Ravi Shankar's wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka have issued a statement saying, "His health has been fragile for the past several years and on Thursday he underwent a surgery that...
09:32 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Chandigarh: A Punjabi singer was thrashed by some unknown persons allegedly owing allegiance to Akalis at a marriage function in Mohali near here, police said on Tuesday. Babbu Chandigarhia alias Shubash, a local Punjabi singer, had gone to attend a marriage party at the lawns of Punjab Cricket Association stadium at Mohali on Monday night. At the function some youths asked the singer to sing at the function, police said....
03:45 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Mumbai: Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali says he will pay a tribute to late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh on the latter's birth anniversary Feb 8 next year. Ghulam Ali celebrated his 71st birthday here Wednesday along with his son Aamir Ali, and revealed his plans for Jagjit Singh's birth anniversary at the event. "It is his (Jagjit Singh) birthday that day. They are saying it will be legend to legend,...
03:09 PM, Dec 06, 2012
