Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar is a sitar player, composer and occasional writer and actress, born in London in 1981 to the sitar master Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Rajan. She grew up between London and Delhi. Through her father she is the half-sister of the singer Norah Jones. Her work covers classical and contemporary music, both acoustic and electronic.

Her debut album, Anoushka, came out on Angel Records in 1998, followed by Anourag in 2000, Live at Carnegie Hall in 2001 and Rise in 2005. She recorded the full-length collaboration Breathing Under Water with Karsh Kale in 2007, then moved to Deutsche Grammophon for Traveller (2011), Traces of You (2013), Home (2015) and Land of Gold (2016). Later work includes Love Letters (2020), the soundtrack to the television series A Suitable Boy, and a three-part series of albums released between 2023 and 2025, starting with Chapter I: Forever, For Now. She has received fourteen Grammy nominations, and she was the first musician of Indian origin to perform at the ceremony and to present there. She has also performed alongside her father.