Anoushka

Anoushka Shankar born 1981-06-09 is a British-American sitar player and musician, as well as occasional writer and actor. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic Anoushka Shankar is a masterful sitar player, film composer and activist. Her music is genre-defying, combining classical with contemporary and acoustic with electronic. Shankar was the first Indian woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award® and has now accrued nine nominations. Quote "Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music". Quote "I didn't hate it. But I didn't like it". Quote "They would sit me down … and say 'You don't have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it." Quote "People wonder if I'm only famous because I'm his daughter…. There's always going to be that pressure of being his daughter…. I want to earn respect in the classical world." Quote "We've tried to mess around a little, We just started laughing and gave up." Quote "Being his daughter has made me closer to him as a student, And being his student has brought me closer to him as his daughter". Quote "I think it's important for me to establish myself first as a classical musician."