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  "Anoushka Shankar has  increasingly made her own stamp on music... developing into a world music star." - India Currents

Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar has emerged as one of the leading figures in world music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, and is now one of the foremost performers in that tradition. In tandem with this, she has flourished as a performer and composer, exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including electronica, jazz, flamenco and Western classical music.

In the autumn of 1998 her first solo recording, Anoushka, was released to critical acclaim. Annourag (2000), Shankar's second release expanded upon and refined what she had previously recorded and was followed by Live a Carnegie Hall (2001) which garnered her first Grammy nomination, making her the youngest ever nominee in the World music category. Both Shankar and her half-sister, Norah Jones, were nominated for Grammy awards in 2003.

In 2007 Anoushka collaborated with Karsh Kale, the Indian-American producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, to jointly create the album Breathing Under Water, which showed an even deeper grasp of the fusion of Eastern and Western music. This album features a rare guest appearance by her father, as well as contributions by Norah Jones, Sting and others.

Anoushka Shankar Q & A in India Currents magazine
Anoushka's interview is about playing with Ravi and with her sister Norah Jones. Read more.