Anoushka Shankar

Born in London in 1981 and raised between the United Kingdom, Delhi and later California, Anoushka Shankar has built her career around a sustained dialogue between Indian classical music and contemporary forms. Trained from an early age on the sitar by her father Ravi Shankar, she gave her first major public concert at 13 in New Delhi before regularly accompanying her father on stage and in the studio, notably in connection with Chants of India in 1997. Anoushka Shankar released her debut album Anoushka in 1998 and Anourag in 2000, initially focusing on the raga tradition, before broadening her musical language with Rise in 2005 and Breathing Under Water, co‑created with Karsh Kale, in 2007, where the sitar meets electronic textures and a more cross‑disciplinary writing. With Traveller in 2011 she explored historical links between Indian music and flamenco, and subsequently released more personal records such as Traces of You (2013), Home (2015) and Land of Gold (2016). Her work also extends to composing for film and screen, including the restored film Shiraz and the series A Suitable Boy. On stage, Anoushka Shankar alternates between classical recitals, hybrid projects and collaborations with orchestral ensembles.