Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar
Shankar at the Rudolstadt-Festival 2016
Born
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar

(1981-06-09) 9 June 1981 (age 43)
London, England
Nationality
  • British
  • American
Occupations
Spouse
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(m. 2010; div. 2019)​
Children2
FatherRavi Shankar
Relatives
Musical career
OriginLondon
Genres
Instruments
Years active1995–present
LabelsAngel, Deutsche Grammophon, Mercury KX
Websiteanoushkashankar.com

Anoushka Hemangini Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a British-American[1][2] sitar player and musician of Indian descent,[3][4] as well as occasional writer. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic.[5][6] 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. She has received eleven[7] Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony.[8] She was the youngest and first woman to receive a British House of Commons Shield.

  1. ^ "Anoushka Shankar Doesn't Want To Be the 'Only Brown Woman' in the Room". VICE. 23 November 2022.
  2. ^ @ShankarAnoushka (9 October 2020). "'m gonna set my alarm to join from London. See you there? And by the way...If you're an overseas American like me, have you mailed in your ballot yet?!?!" (Tweet). Retrieved 12 April 2024 – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "Anoushka Hemangini SHANKAR". gov.uk. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Anoushka Shankar". Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 3 April 2024. Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar — the first Indian woman and youngest-ever Grammy nominee in the world music category
  5. ^ "the twang of your heart. Sitarist and social activist Anoushka Shankar brings her fight to support refugees to the stage". SubMerge. 10 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 July 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Anoushka Shankar". British Music Collection. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  7. ^ https://www.grammy.com/artists/anoushka-shankar/14179
  8. ^ "Anoushka Shankar thrilled to be a presenter at the Grammys". The Economic Times. 6 February 2016.