About Anoushka Shankar Sitar Player and Composer

Composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar has emerged as one of the great figures of world music today. It is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, with only studied with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, and is today one of the main actors in this tradition. In parallel, it has thrived as a performer and composer, exploring the fertile lands of the connection between Indian music and a variety of genres, including electronica, jazz, flamenco and classical Western music.

Born on 9 June 1981, Anoushka has played and studying the sitar with her father since age nine. At age 13 she made her debut performance in New Delhi. That same year, Anoushka in the recording studio for the first time to play "Adarini" on the album of her father in celebration. Two years later, she made her debut as a conductor of his father Chants Of India album produced by George Harrison. Shortly after, they recorded an exclusive contract with Angel / EMI, and in the autumn of 1998 his first solo recording, Anoushka, was released from criticism. Anourag (2000), Anoushka the second version, developed and refined what she had, and was followed by Live at Carnegie Hall (2001), which received its first Grammy nomination, as the youngest nominee in the category World Music.

Classical sitar with three recordings to her credit, she was in demand as an itinerant artist, and in the coming years is increasingly an international reputation as a classic situations of terrorism, but prefer to play 80 concerts a year. At that time, they are aware that the maturation of all time as a performer and composer, Anoushka has decided not to proceed with its next album until it felt she was ready.

A highlight of 2002 was the concert of George, a tribute to the late George Harrison at London's Royal Albert Hall, where they meet a new composition written by her father, Arpan, who presented to the Eric Clapton guitar solo. Anoushka also performed Harrison "The Inner Light" that evening. The spread of its wings, she turned to writing and also in 2002, she is the author of the book Bapi: The Love of my life, an intimate portrait of the biography of his father, and 2004, she won a Best Actress nomination from India National Film Awards for his debut in the dance as a man, the film by Pamela Rooks. That same year she was chosen as one of 20 Asian heroes Asian edition of Time Magazine. Later, she became the first Indian Ambassador to the United Nations World Food Program.

In 2005, it was time for a new phase. Previously, Anoushka had recorded and performed primarily as soloist, interpreting the music of his father. Although they still enjoy a show in the classical Indian and hiking with his father (as it has done since), higher, his fourth album, it is composed, arranged and produced his own music, self-assembly of brilliant musicians. She now has the confidence to expand his repertoire: "It was the first album that I composed and planned, so it was more the kind of music I listened to my personal life. Before they were still separated from my role as a player of classical sitar. But they need not be separated. "Fusing East and West, both acoustic and electric instruments, the album marked a new departure for Anoushka Anoushka.Rise gave a Grammy nomination in the category Music world class. In February 2006, it is also the first Indian to play at Grammy Awards.

Anoushka toured again in the wake of the album, Anoushka Shankar project to introduce its new non-classical with a set of compositions public. This group consists of musicians from different musical styles, with more or fewer staff, the music draws deeply from India's rich musical heritage, but the group is also a clear distinction between the work of experimental and Anoushka concerts of Indian classical music.

In 2007 Anoushka and Karsh Kale, the American Indian producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, ensemble, album breathing under water, showing a deeper understanding of the fusion of Eastern and Western music. This album is one of the few invited by his father, and the contribution of his half-sister, Norah Jones, Sting and many others. "On the breath under water, I felt I could push risky ways for me," says Anoushka, or work with a string orchestra, with vocals in English, or the use of traditional song structures and Western arrangements. Karsh and I share many types of musical backgrounds, but also very different fields, which allowed us to record a very large in a way that I do not think any of us would have done it alone insofar as it crossed all genres. "The critics were unanimous in their praise, and the album was launched in a concert for an audience of 14,000 in 2007 Stern Grove Festival.

His work is remarkable for the way it has expertise as a beautiful Indian classical music and the depth of Indian raga framework in collaboration with musicians of great quality from a variety of traditions, the creation of Innovative music appealed to his own generation, as much as that of his father.

Today, the double houses in New Delhi and California, it continues to grow in different directions. She invited contributions to recordings by other artists, including Sting, Lenny Kravitz and Thievery Corporation. In developing its work with the Western classical musicians has included the tax in duet with the famous violinist Joshua Bell Verbier Festival 2007. Back in 2000, they also appeared at the Evian Festival Sitar-duo with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and in 1998, duetted with the flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal play sitar and piano. She also played as soloist in the execution of his father, 1st concerto for sitar and orchestra, in January 2009, she was the Sitar soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra concert series for the premium of the ring are 3rd concerto for sitar and orchestra.

"I see all these ways and for me to continue to grow and stay very cool," says Anoushka. "I love you in different ways in music, and if it is to play with my father - a kind of ultimate experience in pure classical music - or a band to present my vision of classical music of a different manner or with individual artists or a band, I delight to do all these things. "


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