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Anoushka Shankar
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London, England, UK
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar (born June 9, 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. She has received nine Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the…
Known for
- Gorillaz Present: The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God — Self - Sitar2026
- Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi? — Self2016
- Anoushka Shankar: Traveller — Sitar2012
- Oye! It's Friday! — Herself2008
- Dance Like a Man — Lata Parekh2004
- Concert for George — Self2003
- Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds — Sitar2001
- The Beatles Revolution — Self2000
- Gaia Symphony — Self1992
- BBC Young Musician — Judge1978
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Key facts
- Born
- Anoushka Hemangini Shankar , ( 1981-06-09 ) 9 June 1981 (age 44) , London, England
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom United States
- Occupations
- Sitarist composer actress
- Spouse
- Joe Wright ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2019 )
- Father
- Ravi Shankar
- Relatives
- Norah Jones (half-sister) Shubhendra Shankar (half-brother)
- Origin
- London
- Genres
- Indian classical crossover world music
- Instruments
- Vocals sitar piano tanpura
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Labels
- Angel , Deutsche Grammophon , Mercury KX
- Website
- anoushkashankar .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- London
- Spouse
- Joe Wright
- Father
- Ravi Shankar
- Sibling
- Norah Jones
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Instrument
- sitar
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Official website
- www.anoushkashankar.com
- Image
- Anoushka Shankar -3578.jpg
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- Anoushka Shankar
- date of birth
- 1981-06-09
- name in native language
- Anoushka Shankar
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- lifestyle
- veganism
- social media followers
- 49101
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar ( Bengali pronunciation: [onuʃka ʃɔŋkor]; born 9 June 1981) is a British-American sitar player and musician of Indian origin, as well as an occasional writer and actress. 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. She has received fourteen Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anoushka Shankar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.