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Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar is a British-American sitar player and musician, as well as an occasional writer and actress. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic. In addition to releasing seven solo studio albums beginning with Anoushka (1998), she has also worked alongside a wide variety of musicians, including Karsh Kale on the full-lengt…
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entertainment · British-American musician (born 1981) · composer · songwriter · actor · writer · sitarist · singer · recording artist · singer-songwriter · musician · also Anoushka Shankar, Shankar
Born 9 June 1981 · Q259379
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2026· 6 entries
“But what was amazing about him was that within all that classicism and purity, he found a route to being really creative.”
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“but yes, the recording came quite close [to our father”
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Performed as a guest artist with Gorillaz (along with Asha Puthli and Black Thought) on Saturday Night Live
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Shankar performed in a concert with Arijit Singh at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata
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Earned two Grammy nominations Best Global Music Album for Chapter III: We Return to Light and Best Global Music Performance for “Daybreak
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2025· 2 entries
Released ep “Chapter III: We Return to Light”.
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Received her thirteenth Grammy Awards nomination for the track "Daybreak" in the Best Global Music Performance category and her fourteenth nomination for the album Chapter III: We Return to Light in the Best Global M
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn”.
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Received her tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Grammy nominations
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2023· 3 entries
Released ep “Chapter I: Forever, For Now”.
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Received Grammy nominations in both Global Music categories, her eighth and ninth
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Became the inaugural Visiting Professor of Music Business at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Between Us…”.
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Love Letters P.S.”.
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Was co-nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for A Suitable Boy Score
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Was nominated for a seventh Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Love Letters
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2020· 7 entries
Released album “A Suitable Boy: Original Television Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Peradam”.
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Released ep “Love Letters”.
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In 2020, Shankar was announced as the inaugural President of the F-List: a UK database created to help bridge the gender gap in music.
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Shankar designed a pin for the "Pin Your Thanks" initiative that supports the National Health Service (NHS) charities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
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Marked a different direction for Shankar
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Shankar was announced as the inaugural President of the F-List: a UK database created to help bridge the gender gap in music
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Reflections”.
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Came the compilation Reflections, a 20-year retrospective album that revisits the best of Shankar's cross-cultural back catalogue with Deutsche Grammophon, including many of her previous collaborations with fellow artist
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2018· 2 entries
Joined musicians, actors and artists such as Patrick Stewart, Peter Capaldi, Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, The Kaiser Chiefs and many others in a call to urge MPs to attend the Refugees Family Reunion Bill and ens
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Won the 3rd Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) for the score to 1928 BFI film Shiraz
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2017· 2 entries
Won the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) Award for Music for outstanding achievements in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes
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Was nominated for a sixth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Land of Gold
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “Land of Gold (Remixes)”.
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Released album “Land of Gold”.
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Shankar helped gather names and signed a letter to the Guardian for a call for action to help Syrian refugees
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Was nominated for a fifth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Home
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Home”.
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Was nominated for a fourth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Traces of You
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Released album “Live in Bangalore”.
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2013· 5 entries
Released album “Traces of You”.
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For Traveller, an exploration of the shared history between flamenco and Indian classical music, which was produced by Javier Limón and featured artists such as Buika, Pepe Habichuela and Duquende
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Was nominated for her third Grammy, in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Traveller
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Responding to the horrific gang-rape of a young girl in Delhi, whom the Indian media referred to as Nirbhaya, Shankar threw her weight behind an online campaign One Billion Rising on Change
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Released a personal album called Traces of You, which was released several months after the death of her father
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2012· 3 entries
Released album “Ravi Shankar Symphony”.
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Won Best Artist in the Songlines Music Award for her album Traveller
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The album Area 52 by Rodrigo & Gabriela featured a guest appearance from Shankar's sitar improvisation
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Traveller”.
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Shankar signed with record label Deutsche Grammophon as an exclusive artist
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2010· 1 entry
Collaborated with Jazz legend Herbie Hancock, on his album The Imagine Project, alongside Pink, India
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Breathing Under Water”.
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The UN World Food Programme appointed Shankar as spokesperson to raise awareness about the issues of hunger and malnutrition, especially among children, in India
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2006· 1 entry
Was nominated for another Grammy, in the Best Contemporary World Music Album category for her fourth album Rise
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Rise”.
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Featured on the track "Rebirth" by Indian fusion group MIDIval Punditz
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2004· 1 entry
Received a National Film Award nomination for Best Supporting actress in the film Dance Like A Man in 2004
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2003· 3 entries
Received her first Grammy Nomination in the Best Global Music Album category for her third-album, Live at Carnegie Hall
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When Shankar became the youngest nominee in the World Music category for her third album, Live at Carnegie Hall
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In aid of the Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation
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2002· 1 entry
Performed alongside Patti Labelle, Elton John, Nina Simone and others for Rock for the Rainforest, the benefit concert organized by Sting and Trudie Styler at Carnegie Hall
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Live at Carnegie Hall”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Anourag”.
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Shared the stage with Madonna and Bryan Adams at the Summer's Tibetan Peace Garden Benefit concert organised in London by Sting's wife, Trudie Styler; on 29 November 2002, Shankar was the featured performer of the "I
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1999· 1 entry
Shankar graduated from high school with honours, but decided against university in favour of touring as a solo artist
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Anoushka”.
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1981· 1 entry
Born 1981-06-09.
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