Anoushka Shankar
In this photograph taken on June 4, 2008, Indian musician Ravi Shankar's daughter, Anoushka performs during a concert at London's Barbican centre. The daughter of legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar said on February 14, 2013in a video released for a global women's rights campaign that she had been sexually abused as a child by a family acquaintance. Anoushka Shankar, herself a famed sitar player who used to play with her late father, said she had decided to go public in support of the One Billion Rising campaign against violence against women.
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Anoushka Shankar performs at Cannes
“I was very happy to play music for this elite audience and prepared a special set of some of my own music and gorgeous, rarely-heard songs that my father Pandit Ravi Shankar contributed to legendary Indian film scores at the beginning of his career. 12:15 AM from Bollywood.com Read more »
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TINTED TALES
Srinivasan Cannes Anoushka Shankar’s divine strains on the sitar enthralled invitees at a dinner hosted by the Cannes Festival president Gilles Jacob and its directorThierry Fremaux. Attended by the Indian star set led by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vidya Balan, from MyDigitalFC.com | Financial Chronicle Read more »
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Gig review: Anoushka Shankar, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
new compounds, the desired term is that you’re setting up a “conversation”. The particular chat that sitarist Anoushka Shankar is starting off here tonight, though - between the gypsy music of Rajasthan and its far-flung offspring, the flamenco music of Spain from The Independent Read more »
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Anoushka Shankar – review
and dancers of the Rehmat Khan Langa Troupe. Appropriately, they included an inspired exponent of the castanet-like khertal, for Shankar would be exploring the links between Indian music and flamenco. This was her first London appearance since the death of from The Guardian Music Read more »
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An emotional moment for Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar
was an emotional moment for Grammy award winner, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar who went to Varanasi on Tuesday to immerse the ashes of their father, sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar, who also hailed from the city. Being a closely guarded affair, only the close from Times of India Read more »
