Anoushka Shankar reflects on storied legacy: ‘Am I a torch bearer, a tradition breaker, a pioneer, or a silver-spoon kid?’
Growing up as the daughter and prized student of Ravi Shankar, the world’s most famous Indian classical musician, provides unique challenges and opportunities.
Anoushka Shankar keeps her family's sitar tradition alive with albums, concerts
Her environment certainly hastened her passion. For many, Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012, was a spiritual leader as much as a ...
Anoushka Shankar brings sitar-driven sound to Opening Nights
A recent trilogy of albums brings Shankar and her band to Tallahassee to make her debut at Opening Nights in Ruby Diamond ...
Chapter III: We Return to Light EP
Alongside sarod and percussion, the sitarist and composer—daughter of virtuoso Ravi Shankar—closes out her suite of ...
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Anoushka Shankar brings sitar-driven sound to Opening Nights
The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future. “I needed a place to put some vulnerable feelings, not to get too ...