Anoushka Shankar

Shankar was born in London and her childhood was divided between London and Delhi. She is the daughter of Sukanya Rajan and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, who was 61 when she was born. Through her father, she is also the half-sister of American singer Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar), and Shubhendra "Shubho" Shankar, who died in 1992.

As a teenager, Shankar lived in Encinitas, California, and attended San Dieguito High School Academy. A 1999 honours graduate and homecoming queen, she pursued a career in music rather than attending college.{{cite web|last1=Chhibber|first1=Kavita|title=Anoushka Shankar|url=http://www.kavitachhibber.com/main/main.jsp?id=anoushka_shankar|website=Kavita Chhibber|access-date=27 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118051303/http://www.kavitachhibber.com/main/main.jsp?id=anoushka_shankar|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=dead}}

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Shankar began training on the sitar with one of her father's disciples, Gaurav Mazumdar, at the age of eight.{{Cite web |title=Godfather of world music- sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar bids adieu |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/pandit-ravi-shankar-124181-2012-12-12 |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=India Today |date=13 December 2012 |language=en}} As part of her training, she began accompanying her father on the tanpura at his performances from the age of ten. She gave her first public sitar performance on 27 February 1995 at the age of 13, at Siri Fort in New Delhi as part of her father's 75th birthday celebration concert. For this solo debut, she was accompanied by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain.{{Cite news |last=Desk |first=From : Lifestyle |title=An ode to sitar maestro Anoushka Shankar! |url=https://www.cityspidey.com/news/17972/an-ode-to-sitar-maestro-anoushka-shankar |access-date=2023-02-24 |newspaper=www.cityspidey.com |language=en-GB}} Her first experience in the recording studio came that same year when Angel Records released a special four-CD box set called In Celebration, to mark her father's birthday. By the age of fourteen, she was accompanying her father at concerts around the world. At fifteen, she assisted her father on the landmark album Chants of India, produced by George Harrison. Under both their guidance, she was in charge of notation and eventually of conducting the performers who took part in the recording. After this experience, the heads of Angel Records came to her parents' home to ask to sign her, and Shankar signed her first exclusive recording contract with Angel/EMI when she was sixteen.

She released her first album, Anoushka, in 1998, followed by Anourag in 2000. In 1999 Shankar graduated from high school with honours, but decided against university in favour of touring as a solo artist. Both Shankar and her half-sister Norah Jones were nominated for Grammy awards in 2003, when Shankar became the youngest nominee in the World Music category for her third album, Live at Carnegie Hall.

Having released three albums of Indian classical music, Shankar took several years away from recording and focused her energy on establishing herself as a solo concert performer outside of her father's ensemble. In that time, she toured worldwide, playing an average of 50–60 concerts per year. 2005 brought the release of her fourth album, RISE, her first self-produced, self-composed, non-classical album, earning her another Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary World Music category. In February 2006 she became the first Indian to play at the Grammy Awards, playing material from RISE.

Shankar, in collaboration with Indian producer, composer and musician Karsh Kale, released Breathing Under Water on 28 August 2007. It is a mix of classical sitar and electronica beats and melodies. Notable guest vocals included her half-sister Norah Jones, Sting, and her father, who performed a sitar duet with her.

In 2011 Shankar signed with record label Deutsche Grammophon as an exclusive artist. This marked the beginning of a prolific recording and creative period for Shankar, during which time she continued to refine the sitar sound and musical ideas she had become known for. She earned a third Grammy Award nomination in 2013 for Traveller, an exploration of the shared history between flamenco and Indian classical music, which was produced by Javier Limón and featured artists such as Buika, Pepe Habichuela and Duquende. As Shankar had begun to do with RISE, she created a specially handpicked ensemble of musicians with whom to perform this cross-genre music, and played over a hundred concerts worldwide in support of Traveller. In 2013 she released a personal album called Traces of You, which was released several months after the passing of her father. Produced by Nitin Sawhney, and featuring her half-sister Norah Jones as the sole vocal performer, Traces of You earned Shankar a fourth Grammy nomination in the World Music category. In July 2015 Shankar released Home, her first purely classical album of Indian ragas. Self-composed and produced, Home was recorded over a week in October 2014 in Shankar's new, purpose-built home-studio.

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Following Home, Shankar released Land of Gold (2016) – her fourth album with Deutsche Grammophon.{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar - Land Of Gold - CD|url=https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/anoushka-shankar/land-of-gold|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Rough Trade}} The release featured different types of contributions – from the vocal of MIA and Alev Lenz, to the monologue of "Remain the Sea" by veteran British actress Vanessa Redgrave.{{Cite web|title=Album review: Anoushka Shankar re-embraces electronics and cross-genre collaborations in Land of Gold|url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/album-review-anoushka-shankar-re-embraces-electronics-and-cross-genre-collaborations-in-land-of-gold-1.167046|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The National|date=25 July 2016 }} There is also a strong cinematic influence in the videos, lent by the production of film director Joe Wright. Land of Gold remixes came out in the same year with remixes by Mowgli, Karsh Kale, Matt Robertson, Grain and East London-based collective Shiva Soundsystem.

In 2019 came the compilation Reflections, a 20-year retrospective album that revisits the best of Shankar's cross-cultural back catalogue with Deutsche Grammophon, including many of her previous collaborations with fellow artists and producers.{{Cite web|date=2019-05-08|title=Album Review: Anoushka Shankar - Reflections|url=https://originalrock.net/2019/05/08/album-review-anoushka-shankar-reflections/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=OriginalRock.net|language=en-US}}

The release of Love Letters in 2020 marked a different direction for Shankar. The co-produced EP is a compilation of songs written across 2018-19 and released on her new record label, Mercury KX.{{Cite web|title=INTERVIEW {{!}} Anoushka Shankar playing for love, friendship, family|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/2020/feb/14/interview--anoushka-shankar-playing-for-love-friendship-family-2103211.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The New Indian Express|date=14 February 2020 }}{{Cite web|date=2020-02-07|title=Anoushka Shankar - Love Letters - Album Review|url=https://1883magazine.com/anoushka-shankar-love-letters-album-review/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=1883 Magazine|language=en-US}} Several guest musicians feature on the EP, including singer and co-producer Alev Lenz, twin sister vocal duo Ibeyi, singer and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Indian singer Shilpa Rao, Brooklyn-based mastering engineer Heba Kadry (Björk, Slowdive) and British audio mastering engineer Mandy Parnell (Aphex Twin, The XX).{{cite web|date=7 February 2020|title=Anoushka Shankar Releases Debut Mercury KX EP 'Love Letters'|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/classical-news/anoushka-shankar-love-letters/}}

Shankar regularly collaborates with electronic music producer Gold Panda, percussionist Manu Delago and the Britten Sinfonia strings, all of which appeared, including Shankar, at the 2020 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar and Jules Buckley: New Explorations|url=https://bbc.com/proms/extra/wtPGoQCmn4/Anoushka-Shankar-New-Explorations|access-date=2021-10-27|website=BBC Proms}}

Throughout her career, Shankar has made many guest appearances on recordings by other artists, among them Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Thievery Corporation and Nitin Sawhney.

In 2010 she collaborated with Jazz legend Herbie Hancock, on his album The Imagine Project, alongside Pink, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, John Legend, Chaka Khan, The Chieftains, Wayne Shorter and Dave Matthews. The project was also filmed for a documentary accompanying the release and showing him working with the artists who collaborated on the project.{{Cite news|date=2010-06-23|title=Herbie Hancock's new album features Anoushka Shankar|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49590220100623|access-date=2021-10-27}}

In the same year she featured on the track "Rebirth" by Indian fusion group MIDIval Punditz. In 2012 the album Area 52 by Rodrigo & Gabriela featured a guest appearance from Shankar's sitar improvisation.{{Cite web|last=Sharp|first=Johnny|title=BBC - Music - Review of Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/5hq4/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB}} She performed the Raga Piloo with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja during a concert in Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany in April 2016; the song was originally composed, performed and recorded by Ravi Shankar as a duet with Yehudi Menuhin on the album West Meets East, Volume 2 in 1968.

More recently, she has played on the track "Ama La" on the Dalai Lama's first music album, Inner World that was released in July 2020 on his 85th birthday.{{Cite news|last=Swaminathan|first=Chitra|date=2020-09-17|title=Anoushka Shankar excited to be back on stage|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/anoushka-shankar-excited-to-be-back-on-stage/article32631449.ece|access-date=2021-10-27|issn=0971-751X}}

Shortly after, she appeared on Peradam, the third and final instalment of album trilogy Perfect Vision by Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Tenzin Choegyal; she also collaborated with Grammy-nominated Deva Premal on the song "Prabhujee", released in November 2020.

On 13 November 2020, Shankar was featured on "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" as part of the BBC Radio 2's Allstars' Children in Need charity single.{{Cite web|title=All-star BBC Children in Need charity single announced|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/bbc-radio-2s-allstars-including-cher-kylie-and-robbie-williams-to-release-stop-crying-your-heart-out-cover-for-bbc-children-in-need__31577/|access-date=13 November 2020|publisher=Official Charts Company|language=en}} The single debuted at number 7 on the Official UK Singles Chart{{Cite web|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100 – 20 November 2020 – 26 November 2020|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/|access-date=20 November 2020|publisher=Official Charts Company|language=en}} and number 1 on both the Official UK Singles Sales Chart and the Official UK Singles Download Chart.{{Cite web|title=Official Singles Sales Chart Top 100 – 20 November 2020 – 26 November 2020|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-sales-chart/|access-date=20 November 2020|publisher=Official Charts Company|language=en}}

Shankar has continued to tour and perform as a classical sitarist, both within purely Indian classical ensembles but also as a soloist championing her father's compositions with the world's leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Metropole Orkest and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite news|date=2012-05-18|title=Anoushka Shankar and the London Philharmonic Orchestra: Ravi Shankar - Symphony|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/a1b6f89a-9d70-11e1-aa39-00144feabdc0|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211231222/https://www.ft.com/content/a1b6f89a-9d70-11e1-aa39-00144feabdc0|archive-date=11 December 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-27}}{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar and the New York Philharmonic Is a Debut 35 Years in the Making|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anoushka-shankar-new-york-philharmonic-debut-35-years-making-n678321|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-27|website=NBC News|date=5 November 2016 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106155132/http://www.nbcnews.com:80/news/asian-america/anoushka-shankar-new-york-philharmonic-debut-35-years-making-n678321 |archive-date=6 November 2016 }}

Shankar is the sole performer of Ravi Shankar's First and Second Concertos for Sitar and Orchestra since his death, performing multiple times under the leadership of esteemed conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Jules Buckley, Kristjan Järvi, and Jakob Hrusa. In January 2009 she was the sitar soloist alongside the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra premiering her father's Third Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra, and in July 2010 she premiered Ravi Shankar's first symphony for sitar and orchestra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall.

On November 4, 2012, Shankar performed with father Ravi during his final concert, at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California. He died five weeks later in San Diego.

She has also performed in duets with artists such as violinist Joshua Bell, in a sitar-cello duet with Mstislav Rostropovich, and with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, playing both sitar and piano.

Shankar took her first steps into scoring with a Bengali lullaby composed for director Joe Wright's Anna Karenina (2012), starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Tannishtha Chatterjee.{{Cite news|title=I wrote a Bengali lullaby for Joe's 'Anna Karenina': Anoushka Shankar - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/i-wrote-a-bengali-lullaby-for-joes-anna-karenina-anoushka-shankar/articleshow/10341457.cms|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The Times of India|date=14 October 2011 |language=en}}

Shankar's progression into composition for films led her to score the British Film Institute's restoration of a rare Indian silent Shiraz: A Romance of India (original 1928, scored in 2017). She also performed the composition live at screenings of the movie that premiered at 2017's London Film Festival Archive Gala and then appeared at the global film festival We Are One on 2 June 2020.{{Cite web|title=Faith and creation: Anoushka Shankar on her score for Shiraz {{!}} Sight & Sound|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/anoushka-shankar-composing-shiraz-score|access-date=2021-10-27|website=British Film Institute|date=27 May 2020 |language=en}}

In the same year (2017) she co-wrote and performed on the end-title song "Gain the Ocean" for the Judi Dench-starred British-American biographical drama Victoria & Abdul directed by Stephen Frears.{{Cite web|title=Grammy-nominated sitarist Anoushka Shankar to play live score for 89-year-old Indian silent film Shiraz: A romance of India|url=https://ahmedabadmirror.com/grammy-nominated-sitarish-anoushka-shankar-to-play-live-score-for-89-year-old-indian-silent-film-shiraz-a-romance-of-india/61310445.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Ahmedabad Mirror|language=en}}

More recently she co-composed the score to Mira Nair's (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair, The Namesake) BBC six-part series A Suitable Boy (2020); based on Vikram Seth's classic novel of the same title, the show developed by Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones's Diary, War & Peace, Les Misérables) stars Tabu, Tanya Maniktala and Ishaan Khatter.{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar: Mira Nair wanted music with a strong Indian sound but also a global sensibility|url=https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/interviews/2020/nov/01/anoushka-shankar-mira-nair-wanted-music-with-a-strong-indian-sound-but-also-a-global-sensibility-21085.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Cinema Express|date=November 2020 |language=en}}

Shankar has also ventured into acting (Dance Like a Man, 2004) and writing. She wrote a biography of her father, Bapi: The Love of My Life, in 2002 and has contributed to various books. As a columnist she wrote monthly columns for India's First City Magazine for three years, and spent one year as a weekly columnist for India's second largest newspaper, the Hindustan Times.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

She narrated Stolen Innocence: India's Untold Story of Human Trafficking, a 2017 documentary by filmmakers Chris Davis, Casey Allred and Lindsay Daniels, telling the true stories of young women who escaped from sex slavery in India and Nepal.{{Citation|last=Davis|first=Chris|title=Stolen Innocence: India's Untold Story of Human Trafficking|date=2017-09-24|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7505896/|type=Documentary|access-date=2021-10-27}}

Over the span of her musical career, Shankar has frequently been invited to perform for benefit concerts around the world.

In 2000 she shared the stage with Madonna and Bryan Adams at the Summer's Tibetan Peace Garden Benefit concert organised in London by Sting's wife Trudie Styler;{{Cite web|title=Like father like daughter (May 04, 2001)|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2001/2001_05_04.shankar.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Paloaltoonline.com}} on 29 November 2002, Shankar was the featured performer of the "Indian" half of the Concert for George, a posthumous tribute to the life and music of George Harrison, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She opened the show by playing a solo sitar instrumental titled "Your Eyes". Also on the sitar, she performed George Harrison's "The Inner Light" with Jeff Lynne. Lastly, she conducted a new composition, Arpan, written by her father. The composition featured Eric Clapton playing acoustic guitar, and a full orchestra of Indian and Western musicians. The concert was modelled after Ravi Shankar's benefit concert with Harrison, the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh.

Also in 2002 she performed alongside Patti Labelle, Elton John, Nina Simone and others for Rock for the Rainforest, the benefit concert organized by Sting and Trudie Styler at Carnegie Hall.{{Cite web|last=Limited|first=Alamy|title=Anoushka Shankar, daughter of [Ravi Shankar], performs at Carnegie Hall during the Rain Forest Foundation Benefit Concert in New York on April 13, 2002. The concert was held to benefit groups working to save the world's disappearing rain forests|url=https://www.alamy.com/anoushka-shankar-daughter-of-ravi-shankar-performs-at-carnegie-hall-during-the-rain-forest-foundation-benefit-concert-in-new-york-on-april-13-2002-the-concert-was-held-to-benefit-groups-working-to-save-the-worlds-disappearing-rain-forests-image380717553.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Alamy.com|language=en}}

Shankar was invited by Richard Gere and Philip Glass to perform in a concert at Avery Fisher Hall in 2003 in aid of the Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Shankar and Jethro Tull postponed a concert scheduled for 29 November 2008 in Mumbai after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. They reorganised the performance as A Billion Hands Concert, a benefit performance for victims of the attacks, and held it on 5 December 2008.{{cite news|last=Jamkhandikar|first=Shilpa|date=5 December 2008|title=Mumbai hosts first concert after deadly attacks|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-36890220081205|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207224524/http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-36890220081205|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 December 2008|website=In.reuters.com}}

In 2016 Shankar helped gather names and signed Letter to the Guardian for a call for action to help Syrian refugees.{{Cite web|last=Action|first=Refugee|date=2016-03-25|title=Public figures join Refugee Action's call for the UK to help more Syrian refugees|url=https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/public-figures-join-refugee-actions-call-uk-help-syrian-refugees/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Refugee Action|language=en-US}}

In February 2018 she read a poem as part of Letters Live for Help Refugees, alongside other performers such as Gemma Arterton, Andrew Scott, Jade Anouka, Cara Theobaold, Florence Welch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Joely Richardso, among many others.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In July 2018 she embarked on a short US tour of Land of Gold to help raise funds for the nonprofit organization Help Refugees.{{Cite news|title=Anoushka Shankar US tour will help refugees|url=https://www.pri.org/file/2018070607mp3|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The World from PRX|language=en}}

• British House of Commons Shield, 1998{{cite news |last=De Cruz |first=Errol |date=27 February 2001 |title=Shankar guru a left-handed genius |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KQgkAAAAIBAJ&dq=commons+shield+anoushka&pg=4517,4261834 |location=Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |newspaper=New Straits Times |access-date=7 April 2011}}
• Woman of the Year awarded on International Women's Day 2003 in India.
• Named as one of 20 Asian Heroes by the Asia edition of Time in 2004
• In 2003 she received her first Grammy Nomination in the Best Global Music Album category for her third-album, Live at Carnegie Hall. She was the youngest-ever nominee in this category.
• In 2004 she received a National Film Award nomination for Best Supporting actress in the film Dance Like A Man in 2004.{{Cite web|date=2009-03-07|title=Don't be obsessed with international awards: Anoushka Shankar|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/music/don-t-be-obsessed-with-international-awards-anoushka-shankar/story-i2WFY76s6dsu4axQbnbs4L.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}
• In 2006 she was nominated for another Grammy, in the Best Contemporary World Music Album category for her fourth album Rise.
• In 2012 she won Best Artist in the Songlines Music Award for her album Traveller.{{cite web |url=http://songlines.co.uk/music-awards/2012/winners.php |title=Songlines – Music Awards – 2012 – Winners |website=Songlines |access-date=14 February 2013}}
• In 2013 she was nominated for her third Grammy, in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Traveller.
• In 2015 she was nominated for a fourth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Traces of You.
• In 2016 she was nominated for a fifth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Home.
• In 2017 she was nominated for a sixth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Land of Gold.
• In 2017 she won the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) Award for Music for outstanding achievements in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes.
• Asteroid 292872 Anoushankar, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Silvano Casulli, was named in her honour. The official {{MoMP|292872|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 January 2017 ({{small|M.P.C. 103028}}).
• In 2018 she won the 3rd Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) for the score to 1928 BFI film Shiraz.
• In November 2020 she was nominated for the RTS (Royal Television Society) Craft & Design Awards 2020 for the music she and Alex Heffes composed for A Suitable Boy, A Lookout Point Production for BBC One.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
• In July 2021 she received the Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM).{{Cite web|title=Royal Academy of Music announces 2020 honours|url=https://www.ram.ac.uk/news/royal-academy-of-music-announces-2020-honours|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Royal Academy of Music|language=en-GB}}
• In 2021 she was nominated for a seventh Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Love Letters.{{Cite web|url=https://grammy.com/awards/63rd-annual-grammy-awards-2020|title=63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards|website=Grammy.com}}
• In 2021 she was co-[[List of Ivor Novello Award winners and nominees (2010s–2020s)|

nominated]] for an Ivor Novello Award for A Suitable Boy Score.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2021-ivor-novello-awards-nominees-9612693/|title=Harry Styles, Lewis Capaldi, Dave, Celeste Top 2021 Ivor Novello Award Nominees|magazine=Billboard|first=Gil|last=Kaufman|date=August 10, 2021|access-date=November 21, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/music/news/harry-styles-bon-jovi-ivor-novello-awards-1235070608/|title=Harry Styles, Bon Jovi Win Big at 2021 Ivor Novello Awards as Universal IPO Provides Sideshow|website=Variety|first=Mark|last=Sutherland|date=September 21, 2021|access-date=November 21, 2021}}

• In 2023 she became the inaugural Visiting Professor of Music Business at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music.{{cite web |title=Anoushka Shankar in conversation with Professor Suzanne Aspden |url=https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/anoushka-shankar-in-conversation-with-professor-suzanne-aspden |website=Faculty of Music, Oxford University |access-date=26 January 2023}}
• In 2023 she received Grammy nominations in both Global Music categories, her eighth and ninth. The first was in the category Best Global Music Album for her album Between Us with the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley and featuring Manu Delago. The second was in the category Best Global Music Performance for Udhero Na by Arooj Aftab featuring Anoushka Shankar.{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/2023-grammy-nominations-complete-winners-nominees-list |title=2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Winners & Nominees List | publisher= The Recording Academy |access-date=March 13, 2024 }}
• In June 2024, the University of Oxford awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Music degree for her contributions to the field of music.{{cite news |title=Anoushka Shankar receives honorary degree from Oxford |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/music/news/anoushka-shankar-receives-honorary-degree-from-oxford/articleshow/109688764.cms |access-date=20 June 2024 |publisher=Times of India |date=29 April 2024}}
• In 2024 she received her tenth and eleventh Grammy Nominations. The first was for Chapter II: How Dark it is Before Dawn in the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album category, and the second for Jacob Collier's “A Rock Somewhere” in the Best Global Music Performance category.

Shankar is an activist working with multiple causes and charitable organisations, in particular supporting women and refugees; she is also an advocate for animal rights.

One Billion Rising

In 2013, responding to the horrific gang-rape of a young girl in Delhi, whom the Indian media referred to as Nirbhaya, Shankar threw her weight behind an online campaign One Billion Rising on Change.org,{{cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar supports the One Billion Rising movement|url=http://in.omg.yahoo.com/news/anoushka-shankar-supports-the-one-billion-rising-movement-093412310.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218192949/http://in.omg.yahoo.com/news/anoushka-shankar-supports-the-one-billion-rising-movement-093412310.html|archive-date=2013-02-18|website=Yahoo Celebrity India}} demanding an end to crime against women.{{cite news|last=Nigam|first=Aarushi|date=7 October 2013|title=Anoushka Shankar names song after Delhi gang-rape victim|newspaper=The Times of India|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/music/news-and-interviews/Anoushka-Shankar-names-song-after-Delhi-gang-rape-victim/articleshow/23606354.cms?}} As part of the campaign, she released a video in which she revealed she had been sexually abused for many years as a child.{{cite news|date=13 February 2013|title=Anoushka Shankar says she was sexually abused|newspaper=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21438277|access-date=12 February 2013}}

UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency

In 2018 she joined musicians, actors and artists such as Patrick Stewart, Peter Capaldi, Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, The Kaiser Chiefs and many others in a call to urge MPs to attend the Refugees Family Reunion Bill and ensure refugee families torn apart by war and conflict are reunited.{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar - News|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788154/news|access-date=2021-10-27|website=IMDb}}

Help Refugees

Shankar is one of the faces of the Help Refugees campaign to raise funds and awareness for the refugee crisis worldwide.

The F-List

In 2020 Shankar was announced as the inaugural President of the F-List: a UK database created to help bridge the gender gap in music.{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar|url=https://thef-listmusic.uk/who-we-are/anoushka-shankar/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The F-List Directory of UK Female Musicians|language=en-GB}}

Pin Your Thanks

In 2020 Shankar designed a pin for the "Pin Your Thanks" initiative that supports the National Health Service (NHS) charities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.{{Cite web|title=Anoushka Shankar|url=https://pinyourthanks.org/products/anoushka-shankar|access-date=2021-10-27|website=#PinYourThanks|language=en}}

The Walk

She is an ambassador for The Walk, an international artistic project in support of refugees.{{Cite web|title=Ambassadors - The Walk|url=https://walkwithamal.org/ambassadors/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Walkwithamal.org|language=en}}

UN World Food Programme

In 2007 the UN World Food Programme appointed Shankar as spokesperson to raise awareness about the issues of hunger and malnutrition, especially among children, in India.{{Citation|title=Music and Language: A Partnership|date=2021|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13606.003.0011|work=Of Sound Mind|pages=153–172 |publisher=The MIT Press|doi=10.7551/mitpress/13606.003.0011|isbn=9780262365659|s2cid=263404169 |access-date=2021-10-27}}

PETA

Shankar and her father, also a supporter of animal rights, appeared in a thirty-second public-service announcement against animal suffering for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).{{cite web|title=Kentucky Fried Cruelty :: Celebrity Support :: Anoushka Shankar ad Pundit Ravi Shankar|url=http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/c-ravianoushkashankar.asp|website=Kentucky Fried Cruelty|publisher=PETA}}

Artists4Ceasfire

In October 2023, Shankar signed the Artists4Ceasefire open letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States, calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.{{Cite web |title=Artists4Ceasefire |url=https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/ |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=Artists4Ceasefire |language=en-US}}

In 2010, she married British director Joe Wright.{{cite news|last1=Barnett|first1=Laura|title=Anoushka Shankar: 'Suddenly I'm the parent'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/20/anoushka-shankar-alchemy-festival|access-date=2 November 2016|work=The Guardian|date=20 May 2014}} They have two sons (born 2011 and 2015). They separated in December 2017 and finalised their divorce in September 2019. She lives in London with her sons.{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/anoushka-shankar-instagram-post-on-first-love-and-separation-5124881/|title=Anoushka Shankar writes a heartfelt note on 'first love' and 'life as a single parent'|date=5 April 2018|work=The Indian Express|access-date=11 June 2018|language=en-US}}

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• Rise Remixes (2006)

• Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (2000)
• Live at Carnegie Hall (2001)
• Concert for George (2003)
• Live in Concert at the Nehru Park, New Delhi (2005)
• Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation (2007)
• Reflections (2019)
• Between Us ... (2022)

• "Adarini" – In Celebration composed by Ravi Shankar, 1995
• Chants Of India – Ravi Shankar; George Harrison, featuring Anoushka as Conductor & Assistant, 1997
• Sacred Love – by Sting, 2003
• 8 classical ragas performed on ShankaRagamala composed by Ravi Shankar, 2005
• "Rebirth" – Co-written by Gaurav Raina, Tapan Raj and Anoushka Shankar. Midival Punditz – MIDIval Times, 2005
• "Beloved" – by Anoushka Shankar remixed by Thievery Corporation – Versions, 2006
• "Bring It On" – Featuring Anoushka Shankar on sitar. Written by Lenny Kravitz, It Is Time for a Love Revolution, 2007
• "Mandala" – Featuring Anoushka Shankar on sitar. Co-written by Hilton Garza, Radio Retaliation, 2008
• "Charu Keshi Rain" – Co-written by Nitin Sawhney and Anoushka Shankar, London Undersound, 2008
• "Variant Moods – Duet For Sitar & Violin" (abridged version) Written by Ravi Shankar, At Home With Friends by Joshua Bell, 2009
• "Ixtapa" – Rodrigo y Gabriela & C.U.B.A. featuring Anoushka Shankar on sitar, Area 52, 2012
• "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" – Miloš Karadaglić featuring Anoushka Shankar, on the album Blackbird: The Beatles Album, 2016
• "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", Children in Need charity single, 2020

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