Anoushka Shankar

Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is one of the leading figures in World Music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian Classical Music. It is well known that she has studied with her illustrious father, Ravi Shankar since the ripe age of nine.
Her own accomplishment as a composer not only in the classic India music and she has combined that culture with her influences of Flamenco, Electronica, Jazz and Western classical music. She has been twice nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006, when nominated for Rise, soon after becoming the youngest nominee and the first woman ever nominated in the World Music Category, for her album Live at Carnegie Hall in 2002. She has also been chosen as one of twenty Asian Heroes by the Asia edition of Time magazine in 2004, and was the youngest and first female recipient of a House of Commons Shield from the British House of Parliament in 1999.
Anoushka Shankar was born in London England and raised there, New Delhi and California. Her career was International from the beginnings as she made her debut in New Delhi at the age of thirteen, and was playing venues in the Carnegie Hall by the age of fifteen, accompanying her father at his concerts worldwide.
At sixteen she signed an exclusive contract with Angel/EMI and released three classical recordings, 1998, 2000 and Live at Carnegie Hall in 2001, all to great critical acclaim. After her education she focused her musical pursuits and began touring in earnest, developing a great solo career as a classical sitarist.
In 2011 she signed with the prestigious classical label, Deutsche Grammophon Records, and released Traveller with her explorations into Flamenco and Indian Classical music. She has continued her worldwide tour in 2012. A multi-award winning musician, Nitin Sawhney wrote in the sleeve-notes of her album Traveller, “No one embodies the spirit of innovation and experimentation more evidently than Anoushka Shankar.”