Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka is a British-American musician and sitarist. She is the youngest woman and was the first person to be awarded an official British House of Commons shield. Anoushka is a emerging star of Indian sitar. She is a student and child of Ravi Shankar. She was born London in 1982. In during her early years, she swam in London New Delhi. The first time she performed was at New Delhi when she was thirteen years old. When she moved to Encinitas the state of California, in 1999 she earned an honorary high school certificate. Although she is still very young Anouskha is a star in her performing and recording record. She performs regularly alongside her father and has performed with him for quite a number of years. She released Anourag her first solo album in 1998. Her Grammy-nominated Live At Carnegie Hall album was released in 2002. She has performed at most important venues across the world. Anoushka Shankar's work isn't limited to performing in music. Bapi The Love of My Life is an illustrated biographie she penned in 2002. It is a tribute to her father, who passed away in 2002. Ravi Shankar. In addition, she been in the role of. In the 2003 film Dance Like a Man, where she portrayed the role of a Bharat Natyam dancer young girl. The career of Anoushka Shankar is in the process of developing and she'll continue to achieve great success in the near future. Anoushka was a frequent traveler and spent lots of traveling between London and Delhi during her young years. Then, she relocated to California to attend high school. She started learning to play the guitar at age 9 and was a sitar player in celebration of the 75th anniversary the birth of her father in Delhi just four years after. Alongside her father, his world tour, Anoushka was able to accumulate a variety of experience performing in Carnegie Hall while still in her teens performing at Peter Gabriel's WOMAD festival, and also recording together with George Harrison. She was the only female recipient of the House of Commons Shield awarded by the British Parliament for her talent and musical ability as a preeminent musician of in the Asian Arts.