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Anoushka Shankar (अनुष्का शंकर) (b. 1981), is a sitar player and composer from India. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Shankar. She began playing sitar under her fathers guidance at the age of nine and blossomed into a wonderful musician. She is becoming increasingly known for not only her recital work but for her own classical Indian compositions. Born on 9th June 1981, when Shankar was eight years old her father began training her in the sitar. <a href="ht
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.
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