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Anoushka Hemangini Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a British-American sitar player and musician of Indian descent, as well as occasional writer. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic. In addition to releasing seven solo studio albums beginning with Anoushka (1998), she has also worked alongside a wide variety of musicians, including Karsh Kale on the full-length collaboration Breathing Under Water (2007) and her father Ravi Shankar ...
To read a list of Anoushka Shankar’s accomplishments is to read many life stories in one: masterful sitarist; film composer; impassioned activist; the youngest and first female recipient of a British House of Commons Shield; the first Indian musician to perform live or to serve as presenter at the Grammy® Award with seven nominations under her belt, and the first Indian woman to be nominated; one of the first five female composers to have been added onto the UK A-level music syllabus ...
Anoushka began studying the sitar - and Indian classical music - from the age of 9 under the intensive tutelage of her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar: a master of the instrument, and a figure without whom 20th Century music would quite simply not have been what it was. After making her professional debut at thirteen, she began touring worldwide ...
The music on this album was, more than anything, about how I at times need to fold myself away to heal for a metaphorical night before facing a new day; that all of us are carrying too much and need to be able to stop and heal, and that the world itself needs to take a pause, reflect and move in a new direction.
Dec 21, 2023 · http://KEXP.ORG presents Anoushka Shankar performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 17th, 2023.Songs:Boat To NowhereSecret HeartDancing In Madness...
Sep 7, 2020 · Anoushka Shankar: “There’s anger and heartbreak set in a mood together”. On a Zoom video call from her mother’s home in London, sitarist Anoushka Shankar admits that this is not how she imagined we would be finally meeting each other. With her curls cropped short, Shankar, 39, is a spitting image of her father, the sitar legend, Ravi ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Upon hearing glowing press blurbs about her, Anoushka Shankar audibly winces. "It goes without saying that Anoushka Shankar is a virtuoso sitar player," The Guardian gushed, front and center in her press release. Ditto for Harper's Bazaar, who proclaimed she's "making her own unique mark on the world."Her live show is "Expect to be thoroughly intoxicated," wrote an awestruck Time Out New York.. To which Shankar emits a sheepish reaction through her teeth: "Whoa boy. "I have that real mix of ...
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Sister Susannah (feat Alev Lenz, Anandi Bhattacharya, Nina Harries & Nikita Gill)
For two decades, Anoushka Shankar has been hailed as a maverick, seamlessly merging classical with contemporary, East with West. Hailed by the Guardian as a “virtuoso sitar player”, Anoushka ...
