Whos a good sitar artist?

Answer 1

First of all it is apparently very controvercial to get into that debate. The answer depends on various considerations. In the West Ravi Shankar has been the most famous sitar artist. However he never enjoyed the same reverence amongst the learned audiences of India who favoured Ustad Villayat Khan. Critics say that his style is overly simplistic and geared towards the Western audiences, relying at times on gimmicks. Having said that the employment of gimmicks arguments does not hold any more, as every other sitar player followed suit and came up with games to please audiences rather than keep the music chaste. I personally find that lesser known sitar players are playing better music. I recently heard Anwar Khurshid at the Mosaic Arts Festival in Mississuaga Toronto. I really liked the performance. I later found that there is sitar related page that answers a bunch of different question that I visited. Here is the link. http://www.sitarschool.com/Indian%20Classical%20Music%20Instruments%20Sitar.html
No bias intended.

Answer 2

Ravi Shankar,Anoushka Shankar and Ajit Singh are 3
that come to mind.Ravi is also the father of singer
Norah Jones and by the way taught George
Harrison of the Beatles how to play the Sitar.

Answer 3

Ravi Shankar

Answer 4

no one specifically but the beatles have some cool songs with a sitar in them.

Answer 5

Ravi Shankar is the master.

Answer 6

Michel Jackson...........marvelous one