A sitar player and composer, Anoushka Shankar, is counted among the leading figures in World Music today. Daughter of the legendary sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka began her musical journey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future.

Sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma often called himself the "last and youngest disciple" of the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar. He has introduced himself with this in several of his interviews. However, ...

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, combines her classical Indian background with electronica artist Karsh Kale on the new CD Breathing Under Water. It features guest performers including her ...

The Shankar family has always been credited for bringing Indian music to the forefront of Western audiences. Although it was Pt. Ravi Shankar who brought sitar to the limelight of western avant-garde ...

For Anoushka Shankar, there is legacy and then there is destiny. She is equally respectful of both, but bound to neither. Her ever-growing audience cannot help but acknowledge the familial roots of ...

“Sold out.” Those words have greeted fans of Anousha Shanker when they went online recently to buy tickets for her one and only performance in San Francisco. Her father’s concerts were also sold out.

Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page attended 11-time Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar’s concert at the Brighton Festival, the latter said on Friday, expressing joy and excitement over the legendary ...

Sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar spoke out against online trolling, addressing body-shaming comments. In a recent Instagram post, Anoushka Shankar reflected on her journey with her body and ...

On April 23, 1981, Grammy-winning sitar player Ravi Shankar made his debut with the New York Philharmonic, performing his “Raga Mala Concerto Number Two for Sitar and Orchestra” at Lincoln Center’s ...

Anoushka Shankar has an impeccable musical pedigree. Her father, Ravi Shankar, is a sitar master. Her half-sister, Norah Jones, is a Grammy-winning pop-jazz singer. Now, Anoushka Shankar carves out ...