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 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 ...

Sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma often called himself the "last and youngest disciple" of the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar. He has introduced himself with this in several of his interviews. However, ...

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 ...

Esoteric, eclectic and prolific, the Indian sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar has mapped out an intriguing artistic path by delivering intriguing music that has veered between the modern and the ...

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 ...

Musician Anoushka Shankar recently denied claims that sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma was a disciple of her father, the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar. While praising his talent, she maintained that ...

On April 23, 1981, Grammy-winning sitar player Ravi Shankar made his debut with the New York Philharmonic, performing his “Raga Mala Concerto Number Two for Sitar and Orchestra” at Lincoln Center’s ...

Steeped in North India’s Hindustani classical music from a very young age, sitarist Anoushka Shankar has always been respectful of its ancient roots, but also sees it as living music that is ...

Grammy-nominated musician and composer Anoushka Shankar closed the 2025 Brighton Festival–which she curated around the theme of ‘New Dawn’–by performing her trilogy of mini-albums. Though Shankar had ...

On September 3, Anoushka Shankar, sitar player and daughter of legendary Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and half-sister of musician Norah Jones, took to Instagram to school trolls who body-shame ...