Anoushka Shankar
(Hindi: ??????? ????), born June 9, 1981) is a sitar player and composer in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones. [1]
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Personal life and education
Shankar was born in London and divided her childhood between London and Delhi. As a teenager, she lived in
Encinitas, California and attended
San Dieguito Academy. A 1999 honors graduate, Shankar decided to pursue a career in music rather than attend college.
Career
Shankar began training on the sitar with her father as a child, gave a public performance at the age of thirteen, and signed her first record contract at 16.
She released her first album,
Anoushka
, in 1998. Later, in February 2000, Shankar became the first woman to perform at
The Ramakrishna Centre
in
Kolkata. Both Shankar and her half-sister,
Norah Jones, were nominated for
Grammy awards in 2003.
Shankar, in collaboration with
Karsh Kale, released
Breathing Under Water
on
28 August 2007. It is a mix of classical sitar and
electronica beats and melodies. Notable guest vocals include her half-sister,
Norah Jones,
Sting, and Ravi Shankar who performs a sitar duet with his daughter.
Benefit concerts
On
29 November 2002, she performed with her father at the
Concert for George
held at the
Royal Albert Hall in London. It was held in memory
George Harrison and was modeled after Ravi Shankar's
benefit concert with Harrison, the 1971
Concert for Bangladesh
.
Shankar and
Jethro Tull postponed a concert scheduled for
29 November 2008 in
Mumbai [2] after the
November 2008 Mumbai attacks. They reorganized the performance as
A Billion Hands Concert
, a
benefit performance for victims of the attacks, and held it on
5 December 2008.
[3] Shankar commented on this decision stating that: "As a musician, this is how I speak, how I express the anger within me [...] our entire tour has been changed by these events and even though the structure of the concert may remain the same, emotionally perhaps we are saying a lot more."
[4]
Awards
- British House of Commons Shield, 1998
- Woman of the Year (shared with Kareena Kapoor, Ritu Beri, and Rhea Pillai) awarded on International Women's Day 2003
Activism
Anoushka is a supporter of animal rights and
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She and her father appeared in a thirty-second public-service announcement against animal suffering.
[5]
Discography
Studio albums
- Anoushka
(1998)
- Anourag
(2000)
- Rise
(2005)
- Breathing Under Water
(2007)
Lives and compilations
- Live at Carnegie Hall
(2001)
References
- Anoushka Shankar Biography
- The flute of his labours
- A Billion Hands - Join The Fight Against Terror and For A Better Tomorrow
- Mumbai hosts first concert after deadly attacks
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