A sitar player and composer, Anoushka Shankar, is counted among the leading figures in World Music today. Daughter of the legendary sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka began her musical journey ...

Anoushka composed for her "Rise" album, gave notice that she has remained committed to the Hindustani roots instilled by her father. Starting with a short and Sanjeev Shankar's double-reed shehnai ...

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, combines her classical Indian background with electronica artist Karsh Kale on the new CD Breathing Under Water. It features guest performers including her ...

Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar — the youngest-ever GRAMMY nominee in the world music category — brings her new quintet to The Soraya on Sunday, October 22 at 7:30pm. Placing the sitar front and ...

Sitar maestro Anoushka Shankar, who had two nominations at the 68th annual Grammy Awards, has revealed why she chose not to attend the event and instead stayed in India for her projects. Taking to ...

Anoushka Shankar will be in a unique position to find out if her fifth Grammy Award nomination will result in her first win. The sitar virtuoso and composer, who grew up in Encinitas and now lives in ...

For Anoushka Shankar, there is legacy and then there is destiny. She is equally respectful of both, but bound to neither. Her ever-growing audience cannot help but acknowledge the familial roots of ...

Anoushka Shankar had an unusually sound reason for missing some school days during the fall semester of her 10th grade year in 1996 at San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas. She was on tour and making her ...

The BFC chief executive officer will cochair this year's Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition preview party on June 10 ...

Anoushka Shankar has an impeccable musical pedigree. Her father, Ravi Shankar, is a sitar master. Her half-sister, Norah Jones, is a Grammy-winning pop-jazz singer. Now, Anoushka Shankar carves out ...

Placing the sitar front and center, nine-time Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar incorporates traditional Indian and modern electric music into her work, producing a unique sound that transcends genres.

Over twenty years, Anoushka Shankar has grown into one of the world's leading sitarists. She has long been omnivorous in her musical tastes and this has resulted in a journey without borders. A ...