Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar is an American-born British sitarist as well as a music producer. She was the youngest and first woman to receive an award from the British House of Commons Shield she's received nine Grammy Awards nominations and was the first artist of Indian origin to play live on stage and also act as a host at the award ceremony. Anoushka Shankar is an emerging young star of sitar music. Indian sitar. She is a student as well as child of Ravi Shankar. Her birthplace was in London in 1982. She began her life by hopping between London as well as New Delhi. When she was only 13 the first time she performed at New Delhi took place. After that, she moved into Encinitas CA where she graduated from High School with honours in 1999. Anouskha is still a young woman, nevertheless, she has an remarkable career in the field of recording and performing. She frequently joins her father in performances this she has been doing for quite a few years. In 1998, she debuted her first solo album Anourag. She released the album Live At Carnegie Hall, a Grammy-nominated album a year after. Her career on stage is broad as she's appeared in all of the biggest venues in the world. The career of Anoushka doesn't only involve the world of music. In 2002 she published a book entitled Bapi The love of My Live this is a picture-based biography, which is a respect to her dad Ravi Shankar. Also, in films in 2003 she was in the movie Dance Like a Man where she is an aspiring Bharat Natyam dancer. The career of Anoushka Shankar is in the process of developing and she will continue to achieve great success in the future. Anoushka is a native of England, but spent most of her growing up in between London as well as Delhi. After that, she relocated to California and enrolled in the high school. She began studying music at the age nine and was a sitar player in celebration of the 75th anniversary her father's birth in Delhi four years later. Anoushka's father toured around the globe with her, and she was able to gain many new experiences. When she was still in her teens, Anoushka performed at Carnegie Hall in Peter Gabriel's WOMAD Music Festival. She was the only female winner of the House of Commons Shield awarded by the British Parliament in recognition of her musicianship and talent as a leading musician of music in Asian Arts.