Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Hemangini Shankar ( Bengali pronunciation: [onuʃka ʃɔŋkor] ; born 9 June 1981) 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-length collaboration Breathing Under Water (2007) and her father Ravi Shankar . She has received fourteen Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony.

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