Anoushka Shankar
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Anoushka Shankar at the Rudolstadt-Festival 2016
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| Background information | |
| Born |
9 June 1981 London, England, U.K. |
| Origin | India and UK |
| Genres | Indian classical, crossover |
| Occupation(s) | Sitarist, composer |
| Instruments | Vocals, Sitar, Piano, Tanpura |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Angel, Deutsche Grammophon |
| Associated acts | Ravi Shankar |
| Website | anoushkashankar |
Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) (Tamil : அனுஷ்க்கா ஷங்கர்) (Bengali : অনুস্কা শঙ্কর) is a British Indian sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Norah Jones.
Anoushka was born in London and her childhood was divided between London and Delhi. She is the daughter of Sukanya Shankar and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who was 61 when she was born. Through her father, she is also the half-sister of American singer Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar), and Shubhendra "Shubho" Shankar, who died in 1992.
As a teenager, Anoushka lived in Encinitas, California, and attended San Dieguito High School Academy. A 1999 honors graduate and Homecoming Queen, Anoushka decided to pursue a career in music rather than attend college.
Anoushka began training on the sitar with her father Ravi at the age of seven. As part of her training, she began accompanying him on the tanpura at his performances from the age of ten, soaking up the music and becoming acclimatised to the stage. Anoushka gave her first public sitar performance on 27 February 1995 at the age of 13, at Siri Fort in New Delhi as part of her father’s 75th birthday celebration concert. For this solo debut, she was accompanied by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. Her first experience in the recording studio came that same year when Angel Records released a special four-CD box set called In Celebration, to mark her father’s birthday. By the age of fourteen, she was accompanying her father at concerts around the world. At fifteen, she assisted her father on the landmark album Chants of India, produced by George Harrison. Under both their guidance, she was in charge of notation and eventually of conducting the performers who took part in the record. After this experience, the heads of Angel Records came to her parents' home to ask to sign her, and Anoushka signed her first exclusive recording contract with Angel Records (EMI) when she was sixteen.
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