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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 .
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.
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...
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Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/SnapshotsFoundation and visit http://www.snapshotsfoundation.com/Innovative sitar player and composer Anoushka ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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