23-year-old daughter of India's most famous musical export Ravi Shankar.
Anoushka Shankar is equally comfortable in a silk sari as she is in hip-hugging jeans, and since the age of 13 she has made her sitar an instrument not just of a silky melody but of a cultural revival. Besieged by the pop pap of Bollywood, traditional Indian music has found it hard to win a wider audience beyond old-school aficionados. Shankar, who was taught the fundamentals of the sitar by her father, who's now 84, is changing that by injecting freshness and energy into a somewhat stuffy art form, and broadening its appeal for a younger generation. Says Amjad Ali Khan, a revered Indian musician and contemporary of her father: "Anoushka is the future of Indian classical music."
Shankar's exotic beauty, prodigious talent and impeccable pedigree have made her a concert-hall favorite in the West.
Anoushka Shankar official website.
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