London, England · indian classical · contemporary

Anoushka Shankar

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A sitar player who took the instrument out of its glass case — classical training bent toward flamenco, electronics and film scoring without diluting any of it.

Anoushka Shankar is a sitarist and composer, born in London and trained from childhood by her father, Ravi Shankar. She began performing publicly as a teenager and has worked both as an interpreter of Hindustani classical repertoire and as a composer with her own material.

Her recordings move between strict raga performance and projects that place the sitar alongside flamenco players, electronic producers and chamber ensembles, and she has written for film. Live, she generally works with a small group of percussionists and other instrumentalists, giving long-form pieces room to develop rather than compressing them into short songs.

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