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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 and actor. She performs across multiple genres and styles— classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic .
Anoushka Shankar New Single Releases Today! Anoushka's new single is available on all digital platforms from today. Produced by Arooj Aftab, it's from her new mini album due to be released on Leiter on 6th October. You can pre-order the album here. Thursday, May 4th, 2023.
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.
Anoushka Shankar - In The End (Official Audio) 39,526 views 3 months ago. Taken from "Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn" by Anoushka Shankar.
Sep 7, 2020 · 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 Shankar from his Woodstock days.
Anoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player, composer and a popular exponent of Indian classical music. She is the daughter of the renowned Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Her proficiency in the field of music has earned her six Grammy nominations along with awards such as the Songlines Best Artist Award.
Jan 5, 2023 · Anoushka Shankar is firing on all cylinders, with two nominations at the 2023 GRAMMYs. Through an ever-deepening facility with her sitar, the virtuoso communicates her feelings about a global problem with bracing clarity.
Dec 26, 2023 · Acclaimed sitar virtuoso, film composer and the youngest and the first woman to receive a British House of Commons Shield in recognition of her artistry, Anoushka Shankar is a person of multifaceted talent.
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...
Apr 5, 2024 · New Dawn Anoushka Shankar, the acclaimed sitar player, producer and composer, shares the second instalment of the trilogy of mini-albums she began with ‘Chapter I: Forever, For Now’ in October 2023.
