Anoushka Shankar

Virtuosic and emotional, classical and contemporary, Anoushka Shankar’s masterful sitar playing creates a world where ragas, bright analogue soundscapes, and contemplative electronics beautifully coexist.As a child, Anoushka studied the sitar with her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar, one of the world’s best known North Indian classical musicians. Eventually, she would merge the meditative, introspective qualities of Indian classical music with a teenage love for electronic music and the Goan psychedelic trance scene, creating a sound “one foot in the past and one in the present.”