“Land of Gold,” Anoushka Shankar’s provocative and richly rewarding new album, is inspired by the plight of displaced children and families — the ever-growing scores of refugees uprooted by political ...

Countless singer-songwriters write and perform songs about love lost, heartbreak, or other personal issues. AnoushkaShankar has opted for the road not–or at most seldom–taken with her new album, Land ...

Esoteric, eclectic and prolific, the Indian sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar has mapped out an intriguing artistic path by delivering intriguing music that has veered between the modern and the ...

Soon it was all over the place, most often in the form of the Danelectro electric sitar, with its “buzz” bridge design offering an imitation of the sitar’s distinctive sound on an instrument easily ...

Arooj Aftab has announced a deluxe edition of her album Vulture Prince. The new expanded double LP pressing is out June 24 via Verve. Today, she’s shared the added track “Udhero Na,” which features ...

Anoushka Shankar had an unusually sound reason for missing some school days during the fall semester of her 10th grade year in 1996 at San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas. She was on tour and making her ...

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London-based sitar player Anoushka Shankar began performing in public when she was 13, almost 30 years ago, and was soon playing such major venues as the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. In those ...

The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future. “I needed a place to put some vulnerable feelings, not to get too ...

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 ...

India's name shone bright at the Grammys after Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. Multiple Indian and Indian-origin musicians such as sitarist Anoushka Shankar ...

Anoushka Shankar, the 11-time Grammy-nominated sitarist, has announced her highly-anticipated India Tour celebrating 30 years of live performance. This milestone tour will begin in Hyderabad on ...