Name
Anoushka Shankar
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1981-06-09 (45 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Biography
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar (born June 9, 1981) is a British-American sitar player and musician of Indian descent, as well as occasional writer and actor. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic. She has received nine Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony. Daughter of Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and half-sister of award-winning singer-songwriter and pianist Norah Jones, she has released 7 solo studio albums since 1998.
Known For
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As a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his passing, The Concert for ...
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A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. A potter's son falls for the foundling girl...
- 2003 Concert for George as Self
- 2000 The Beatles Revolution as Self
- 2012 Anoushka Shankar: Traveller as Sitar
- 2016 Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi? as Self
- 2001 Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds as Sitar
- 2004 Dance Like a Man as Lata Parekh
- 2026 Gorillaz Present: The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God as Self - Sitar
- Soon Gorillaz Tottenham Hotspur Stadium documentary as Self
- 1992 Gaia Symphony ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Oye! It's Friday! ( 1 episode ) as Herself
- 1978 BBC Young Musician ( 1 episode ) as Judge
