Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka shankar is a British and American sitar player. She also plays music. She is the youngest woman and the first to be awarded the British House of Commons shield. Anoushka Shankar is a rising young star of the Indian sitar. She is a scholar and daughter of the legendary Ravi Shankar. Her birthplace was London in 1982, and her first years she split in London New Delhi. The first time she performed was in New Delhi when she was only 13 years old. Later, in Encinitas CA she attended high school and graduated with distinction in 1999. Anouskha was only 17 years old, has had an impressive recording and performing career. She has performed with her father on stage for many years. Her debut solo album, Anourag, was released in 1998. She released the album Live At Carnegie Hall, a Grammy-nominated album two years later. As she's appeared on many of the biggest stages around across the globe, she's stage career has been expansive. Anoushka isn't only a singer. Bapi the The Love of My Live, a picture-biography that is dedicating to her dad Ravi Shankar was published in 2002. Also, she has been in the role of. In the 2003 film Dance Like a Man, where she played a Bharat natyam dancing young girl. Anoushka's career is still developing and she is expected to accomplish many amazing things in the coming years. Anoushka is a native of England, but spent most of her childhood in between London as well as Delhi. After that, she relocated to California and enrolled in high school. She began learning music when she was nine years old and played the sitar in celebration of the 75th anniversary her father's birth in Delhi the following year. Anoushka's father toured around the world with her and she also gained a variety of experience. As she was in her teens, Anoushka performed at Carnegie Hall during Peter Gabriel's WOMAD Music Festival. Her talent and musicality have been recognised by British parliament as among the finest of the best in Asian Arts.