Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka shankar is an British and American sitar player. She also sings. She was the very first and youngest female to be awarded an award from the British House of Commons Award. Anoushka is a rising star in Indian sitar. She is Ravi Shankar's student as well as his daughter. She was born London in 1982, and her first years she split her time between London New Delhi. At the age of 13, her first show in New Delhi took place. After that, she moved to Encinitas CA where she graduated from High School with honours in 1999. Anouskha is an aspiring young lady, nevertheless, she has an amazing career in singing and recording. She performs regularly with her dad and has performed with him for quite a number of years. She made Anourag her debut album on her own in 1998. A year later, she dropped the Grammy nominated Live in Carnegie Hall. Apart from performing in all of the largest venues, she also is a stage performer for a lengthy time. Anoushka isn't only a singer. Bapi The love of my life is an illustrated biographie she wrote in 2002. The book pays tribute to her father who died in the year 2000. Ravi Shankar. In 2003, she appeared as a Bharat natyam young dancer in Dance Like a Man. Anoushka continues to grow in her career and will surely be more things to come from this amazing woman. Anoushka Shankar was born in England and spent a lot of her childhood in London and Delhi after which she moved to California in the state where she attended high school. She started learning to play the guitar at age 9 and was a sitar player for the 75th anniversary of the birth of her father in Delhi just four years after. The father of Anoushka travelled the globe with her, and she was able to gain many new opportunities. While still in her teens, Anoushka performed at Carnegie Hall at Peter Gabriel's WOMAD Music Festival. She was the only female winner of the House of Commons Shield awarded by the British Parliament to recognize her talent and musical ability as a preeminent musician of music in Asian Arts.