Anoushka Shankar

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Anoushka Shankar at the Rudolstadt Festival 2016
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Traces of You
  CH 77 10/20/2013 (1 week)
  US 185 11/09/2013 (1 week)

Anoushka Shankar ( Hindi अनुष्का शंकर ; born June 9, 1981 in London ) is a sitar player.

life and work

Anoushka Shankar was born in London. She is the daughter of the well-known sitar player Ravi Shankar , her mother is Sukanya Rajan. When she was seven, she moved to San Diego with her parents . There she learned to play the sitar from her father. At the age of 13 she made her concert debut in New Delhi ( India ); since then she has often performed with her father. In contrast to her half-sister Norah Jones , she is oriented towards traditional Indian music .

Her first solo album, Anoushka , was released in 1998. In 2002 she performed at the Concert for George . In 2008 she organized the A Billion Hands Concert with Jethro Tull , a benefit concert on the occasion of the attacks on November 26, 2008 in Mumbai . She had a role as a dancer in the film Dance Like a Man .

She has been married to the English film director Joe Wright since 2010 , with whom she has two sons (* 2011 and * 2015). The family lives in London. In early 2018, a spokesman for Joe Wright announced that the couple had split.

In 2013 Anoushka Shankar was the artist of the “Zeitinsel” concert series The Anoushka Shankar Project in the Dortmund Concert Hall . Their concert at the Rudolstadt Festival 2016 was recorded by Deutschlandradio Kultur and was broadcast on the Deutschlandradio In Concert slot on October 31, 2016 .

Discography and Media

Albums

  • 1998: Anoushka (Angel Records)
  • 2000: Anourag (Angel Records)
  • 2001: Live at Carnegie Hall (Angel Records)
  • 2005: Rise (Angel Records)
  • 2007: Breathing Under Water. Manhattan (EMI) - with Karsh Kale , Norah Jones, Sting , Ravi Shankar
  • 2011: Traveler (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2013: Traces of You (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2015: Home (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2016: Land of Gold (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2020: Love Letters (Mercury KX)

Concert recordings

Awards

  • British House of Commons Shield, 1998
  • Woman of the Year (with Kareena Kapoor, Ritu Beri, and Rhea Pillai), International Women's Day 2003
  • Grammy nomination for the album Live at Carnegie Hall 2003
  • Naming of an asteroid after her 2017: (292872) Anoushankar

Web links

Commons : Anoushka Shankar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources:
  2. ↑ a b Nick Duerden: Anoushka Shankar: My deep connection with my father. The Guardian , November 19, 2011, accessed November 30, 2011 .
  3. ^ The show must go on . Video interview with Anoushka Shankar on A Billion Hands , livemint.com, December 2008.
  4. ↑ Anoushka Shankar, Joe Wright split up - The Morung Express . In: The Morung Express . January 13, 2018 ( morungexpress.com [accessed May 16, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Monday, October 31, 8: 03–9: 30 pm Deutschlandradio In Concert: Anoushka Shankar
  6. ↑ Anoushka Shankar • Love Letters - EP. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
  7. ^ Verbier Festival 2007 - Anoushka Shankar & Joshua Bell. (No longer available online.) ARTE, archived from the original on August 20, 2009 ; Retrieved August 16, 2009 .
  8. ↑ a b Anoushka Shankar Biography . musicianguide.com. Retrieved January 20, 2009.
  9. ↑ rediff.com: Norah's night at the Grammys
personal data
SURNAME Shankar, Anoushka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH London