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Anoushka Shankar (nascida em 9 de Junho de 1981) é uma sitarista e compositora britânica de origem indiana. É filha de Ravi Shankar, o mais famoso sitarista do mundo, e Sukanya Shankar. É meia-irmã de Norah Jones, vencedora de um Grammy Award, pela parte do pai. Anoushka nasceu em Londres, Inglaterra. Aos oito anos de idade, o seu pai iniciou-a no treino do sitar. Deu o seu primeiro espectáculo público aos treze anos de idade em Nova Deli. Desde então, tornou-se numa sitarista mundialmente reconhecida. O seu nome é uma homenagem a uma grande amiga da família, Anne Pennington, e...

Music of the Gourishankar - is the music of northerner, who is living on the joint of Europe and Asia, near the Ural Mountains (http://www.gourishankar.com). Though musicians call their music "The music for mystical dancing in the opium saloons", all up-to-date creativity of the Gourishankar is based on progressive rock basis. The musicians experience the life through unexpected enlightenments, reflection and meditation, spontaneous insights. In their music musicians are trying to unite the rationality and evolutionism of the West and Eastern mysticism and spontaneous. The band was formed in 2002 in small provincial city Syktyvkar by guitar player Nomy Agranson...

Born in Almora in Uttar Pradesh, India, Shankar was the son of Amala and Uday Shankar, popular dancers, and also the nephew of renowned sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar. Ananda did not learn sitar from his uncle but studied instead with Dr. Lalmani Misra in Varanasi. In the late 1960s Shankar travelled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix. There he was signed to Reprise Records and released his first self-titled album in 1970, featuring original Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits such as The Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash and...

The sitarist and nephew of Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 - 26 March 1999), joins with the DJ and producer Sam Zaman, also known as State of Bengal, to create a fusion where Indian traditional music, sitars and tablas meet western guitars, hip-hop and breakbeats. In the late 1960s Shankar traveled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix ad recorded his first album utilizing Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits such as The Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash and The Doors' Light My Fire. Returning to India in...