Pandit Ravi Shankar's musician daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, wife Sukanya were among many who turned out to pay tribute to the late sitar maestro at his memorial service in Delhi on Sunday evening. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The nine-time Grammy winner deftly moved from keyboards to guitar and to the piano, playing each with elan as she presented a variety of songs from her kitty. ...
12:29 PM, Mar 06, 2013
American singer and pianist Norah Jones took to stage amidst a cheering crowd at her first live performance in India, regaling the audience with hits like 'Sunrise' and 'Come Away With Me'. ...
06:28 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Grammy award winner Norah Jones, performs during A Summer's Day festival in Mumbai on March 3. ...
12:17 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Exciting times ahead for fans of movies and music and television. From honouring the best of cinema at the 85th Academy Awards to Norah Jones performing in India live to Charlie Sheen making his debut on Indian television ...
08:05 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The honour was bestowed on the legendary sitarist, who passed away on December 11, 2012 at the age of 92. ...
02:59 PM, Feb 10, 2013
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
London: Singer Adele's 2012 Bond movie theme and songs by the Black Keys, Fiona Apple, Mumford & Sons and Norah Jones have been shortlisted for a Best Song Oscar nomination. The top acts join the likes of Arcade Fire, Liz Phair, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, Rick Ross and John Legend among 75 artists still in consideration for the Academy Award, reported Daily Star online. Adele's 'Skyfall' makes the...
12:50 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Washington: Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar would receive the lifetime achievement Grammy award, organisers of the top music award announced on Thursday. Shankar would receive the award posthumous on February 10 at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, said the Recording Academy, which gives the prestigious Grammy Awards. The sitar maestro, who popularised Indian classical music in the West and had a major influence on The Beatles'...
09:57 AM, Dec 13, 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: Sitar maestro and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar, one of India's most loved and best known musicians, died in the US Tuesday. He was 92. He had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego last Thursday after he complained of breathing difficulties. He breathed his last at 4.30 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday. He is survived by his wife Sukanya Rajan and daughters Anoushka and...
11:16 AM, 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
Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage ten years ago with her 2002 album 'Come Away With Me' that swept the 2003 Grammy Awards. ...
06:21 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Norah Jones who first emerged on the world stage ten years ago with her 2002 album 'Come Away With Me' that swept the 2003 Grammy Awards. ...
05:51 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Anoushka's fans worry why there is no official word on what ails her. ...
10:28 AM, Sep 09, 2008
Perth: Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is in favour of drafting left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha in the India side for the Perth Test in place of a struggling R Ashwin. Ojha, who has taken 62 wickets in 14 Tests, has never played overseas. I think the left-arm spinner could come in and do well. He's a good bowler and he's ready, and Ashwin obviously hasn't bowled well, Ganguly said. Spin...
07:23 PM, Apr 08, 2008
London: Australian spin great Shane Warne has reportedly slept with a London-based porn star and bombarded her with a series of raunchy text messages even while his romance with Hollywood beauty Elizabeth Hurley was blossoming, a report has claimed. The British tabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror reported that Warne had bedded 26-year-old Chloe Conrad in the same presidential-type suite at London's Bentley Hotel where he and 45-year-old mother of one Hurley...
03:42 AM, Dec 14, 2007
One would normally see Anoushka Shankar with a sitar but CNN-IBN caught her wearing a cat suit and climbing a tree. ...
01:47 AM, Feb 21, 2007
