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. [1] [2][3][4]
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"Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music".[5]
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"I didn't hate it. But I didn't like it". [6]
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"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."[7]
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"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."[8]
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"We've tried to mess around a little, We just started laughing and gave up."[9]
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"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".[10]
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"I think it's important for me to establish myself first as a classical musician."[11]