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	Ravi Shankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra, violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and himself, music for flute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, and music for Hozan Yamamoto, master of the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and koto virtuoso Musumi Miyashita.
		Anoushka is a sitarist and performs frequently with Shankar, in addition to having her own recording career.
		Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a member of the United Nations International Rostrum of Composers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravi_Shankar (914 words)

	Eco-watch
		Anoushka Shankar, the 21 year-old daughter of famed sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, has been playing music since she was a small child.
		Anoushka, born in London and reared in California, began studying the sitar under her father’s tutelage when she was only 9 years old.
		Anoushka’s crowning achievement came in 1998, at only 17 years of age, when she was honored by the Parliament in London which bestowed on her a House of Commons Shield, recognizing her pre-eminence as a musician.
	www.jackmagazine.com /issue7/reviewsjohn.html (676 words)

	Anoushka Shankar
		Anoushka spent her formative years in London, where she was born, and by the time she was seven was also living partly in New Delhi, India.
		Anoushka had her first solo tour in 2000, and is currently focusing on building a solo career.
		Anoushka is also championing her father's Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra, which she first performed with Zubin Mehta conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in March 1997.
	www.pacosvillage.com /articles/archives/August2005/anoushka.htm (845 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| My father, my hero; my daughter, my joy
		Shankar was not just the most important ambassador for Indian classical music, but is probably the only musician who influenced not just pop, via the Beatles, but also profoundly affected the course of jazz and classical music.
		Anoushka is the daughter of his second wife, Sukanya, who was with him when I met him in London, while his other famous daughter, pop star Norah Jones, was the result of a relationship with Sue Jones, a dancer.
		Anoushka has also inherited her father's adventurous musical spirit, and, as well as touring playing Indian classical music, she is releasing an album in September called Ride, "which includes flamenco guitar and electronics".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/07/28/bmshankar28.xml (1206 words)

	Sulivan Sweetland - Anoushka Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anoushka Shankar has shown herself to be a unique artist with tremendous talent and understanding of the great musical tradition of India.
		Anoushka is also championing her father's Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra, which she first performed with Zubin Mehta conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in 1997.
		Unlike her father's pieces, Anoushka Shankar's are more direct, building from a quiet alap, or introduction, to a faster, happy ending Her approach is graceful and less aggressive than her father's, taking away some of the edge, making it slightly less jarring.
	www.sulivansweetland.co.uk /emmasweetland/html/anouska.html (1457 words)

	Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar in Chicago: An Extraordinary Concert
		Anoushka Shankar: young, sleek, vibrant; tousled, sensuous long dark hair; wearing a blue/purple cheonsam-style sleeveless dress with side splits, gold-lamé slacks and barefoot.
		The younger Shankar, 21, and the elder Shankar, 83 (yes, this means she was conceived when he was 62!).
		Anoushka opened up a little purse to take out what looked like talc or ointment that she dabbed on her fingers from time to time during the evening.
	www.yogachicago.com /jan04/shankar.shtml (1339 words)

	Sitarist Anoushka Shankar brings own style to stage 10/10/02
		What Anoushka Shankar, who started playing the sitar at 9 and performing publicly at 13 by assisting her father, is doing is forging her own career.
		The all-instrumental music mostly hails from north India, Ravi Shankar's birthplace, but Anoushka Shankar will play at least one selection from the southern portion, where her mother, a former singer and dancer, was born and raised.
		Shankar is looking forward to the American release of her first book, "Bapi: Love of My Life," a biography of her father, already released in India this August.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/oct10/shankar.html (1075 words)

	Anoushka Shankar - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anoushka is the only artist in the world to be trained completely by her father and legendary sitar virtuoso and composer, Ravi Shankar.
		Anoushka spent her formative years in London, where she was born in 1981.
		Shankar, sounding utterly different from her father, improvised against tablas, using aggressive geometric ideas, ramming home her improvisations; the crowd cheered her loudly, and Mr.
	www.anoushkashankar.com /bio_frame.html (794 words)

	MusicalNirvana - Anoushka Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shankar is the only student of Ravi Shankar to study under his tutelage from the absolute beginning, starting with how to hold the sitar.
		Shankar is developing her own unique sound by studying the masterful style of her father.
		According to BBC Music Magazine, "Anoushka looks set to be as important a pioneer as her father." She attracts listeners with her charm, poise, and confidence, and is set to be the torchbearer of her father's music.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /hindustani/anoushka_shankar.html (152 words)

	Anoushka Shankar
		Anoushka began honing her talent at the age of nine when her father brought a "baby" sitar home, made especially for Anoushka.
		Anoushka conducted a new composition by her father entitled "Arpan." The work featured a guitar solo by Eric Clapton and performances by 43-musicians playing Indian and Western instruments.
		Anoushka Shankar is presented by Chico Performances and is supported; in part, by grants from the California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; Western States Arts Federation; and the City of Chico and its Arts Commission.
	www.csuchico.edu /upe/anoushkashankarPR.htm (1337 words)

	Oregon Symphony News Releases
		Anoushka Shankar has been playing and studying with her father since she was 9, and according to Dubai's What's On magazine, "If Ravi Shankar is the guardian of Indian classical music, Anoushka is certainly the successor to his throne, by virtue of ability alone."
		Ravi Shankar is the recipient of many awards and honors including the Presidential Padma Vibhushan Award (1980) and the Award of Deshikottam, given by Vishawa Bharati and presented in December 1982 by the then Prime Minister, the late Mrs.
		Born in London, Anoushka Shankar has grown up in California, where she graduated with honors from public school in Encinitas, and in India, where she spends part of every winter performing with her father and visiting her family.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0102/Shankar.html (1272 words)

	Ravi and Anoushka Shankar
		Robindra (nicknamed "Ravi") Shankar was born in 1920 in Varanasi, India.
		Anoushka has studied sitar with her father since she was nine years old and made her professional debut at thirteen.
		Anoushka Shankar loves performing, even though she says that playing the sitar is "no fun." She says you have to sit in a cramped position, and get calluses on your index and middle fingers.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/performers/shankar.html (595 words)

	Bio Ravi and Anoushka SHANKAR
		Shankar was born the youngest child of a Bengali family in 1920 in Varanasi (Benares), that holiest of Indian cities.
		Ravi Shankar is a prolific composer and, in addition to his numerous ragas (modes) and talas (rhythmic cycles), he has written for both western and eastern musicians such as Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Japanese artists.
		Anoushka Shankar began her solo career in 2000, with a series of tours to the United States, Japan, Malaysia and India, as well as to Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom.
	www.fesfestival.com /eng2005/shankar.php (963 words)

	Ravi Shankar
		Shankar, Ravi, 1920–, Indian sitarist and composer, b.
		As a youth Shankar was a noted solo dancer with his brother Uday's Indian dance troupe in Paris.
		As the foremost interpreter of the instrument, Shankar was catapulted to fame.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0844695.html (341 words)

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		In November 2002 Anoushka Shankar conducted a new composition of her father's at the highly anticipated "Concert for George," in honor of the late George Harrison at London's Royal Albert Hall.
		Anoushka has a wide range of interests that she continues to nurture, but her devotion to the sitar and to her father's guidance is unmistakable, with a discipline that has led her into an already extraordinary performing career.
		Anourag Anoushka Shankar 2000 Anoushka continues the legacy of her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, with the release of her second album for Angel.
	www.hrmusic.com /artists/shankar.doc (1844 words)

	FemaleMusician.com - The Female Musician is an educational electronic music magazine, audio production facility and ...
		Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of master composer of Classical Indian Music and master sitarist Ravi Shankar.
		Anoushka, in spite of a hand that's healing, not only played the sitar, but also was able to keep up with her father - evidenced by the appreciation of each other's music that was shown in their smiles frequently throughout the pieces they performed.
		With all of Anoushkas worldwide travel, she must have been exposed to various situations and people, I came to the conclusion Anoushkas talent of communication and adaptability is another extraordinary talent she has mastered.
	www.femalemusician.com /dec_03_anoushka.htm (1086 words)

	Ravi Shankar's Festival of India III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shankar was already one of the brightest stars in India before coming to international attention in the 1960s.
		Anoushka made her conducting debut at age 19 in New Delhi, conducting a 22-member orchestra premiering a new composition of her father’s titled Kalyan.
		Anoushka is also championing her father’s Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra, which she first performed with Zubin Mehta conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_6149_ma.html?selecteddate=10282005 (1875 words)

	Anoushka Shankar - Rise
		Anoushka Shankar, 23, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and half sister of Norah Jones, commands recognition in her own right with the release of Rise, her fourth album for Angel Records.
		While Anoushka’s father is considered one of the most prestigious classical Indian artists, Ravi Shankar has nurtured his daughter as both a parent and teacher.
		Anoushka has not only learned a lot about music from her father, but he has shaped her entire sense of the male species as well.
	www.onewaymagazine.com /coverstory_16-642.html (1402 words)

	:: SFJAZZ :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shankar was born in 1920 into a Brahmin family in Varnasi, the holiest of Indian cities.
		Joining Shankar is daughter Anoushka, a prodigious talent — and fellow sitarist — who is the only musician in the world to be trained completely by Ravi.
		Anoushka made her performing debut at age 13, her self-titled solo recording debut at 17, and was at 20 the youngest person nominated for a Grammy in the World Music category for Live at Carnegie Hall.
	www.sfjazz.org /concerts/spring05/artists/shankars.html (568 words)

	CNN.com - Shankar's sitar legacy continues - May 6, 2002
		Shankar became a cult figure in the 70's, when the Beatles embraced him and his music.
		Today, Ravi Shankar is performing as vigorously as before...the music still appearing to flow from his soul.
		But Anoushka, being the youngest one and my daughter, and also luckily, she is talented.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/04/23/india.shankar (410 words)

	AAM-GALA \| Anoushka Shankar
		Anoushka Shankar has established herself as a unique artist with a profound understanding of the great musical tradition of India.
		BBC East followed Anoushka on her European tour in summer 2002 and made a special half-hour documentary, Anoushka Shankar: Sitar Trek shown on prime-time BBC 2 television.
		Anoushka has a wide range of interests that she contines to nurture, but her devotion to the sitar and to her father’s guidance is unmistakable, with a discipline that has led her into an already extraordinary performing career.
	www.aam-gala.de /vita_anoushka.htm (784 words)

	Shankar and daughter play their own ways
		Shankar still practices as much as five hours a day, teaches as often as he can and is overseeing the completion of his music school and foundation in New Delhi, where he is moving after decades of maintaining a part-time home in San Diego County.
		Shankar always performs these days with his daughter Anoushka, a sitarist who has studied with her father for 12 years.
		Though Shankar has fond memories of the Concert for Bangla Desh and the Monterey Pop Festival, where he was on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Mamas and the Papas, he says Woodstock was a "bad experience" because of all the drug use there.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/01/DD59528.DTL (982 words)

	NPR : Anoushka Shankar's Turn to 'Rise'
		At 24, Anoushka Shankar has been touring with her father, Ravi Shankar, for a decade.
		Shankar had a diminutive version of the instrument made for his daughter when she was 7.
		When Shankar was just 7 years old, her father had a special, small sitar made for her.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4855112 (408 words)

	Desi MatchMaker - First Matrimonial Magazine for South Asians in USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anoushka claims that the father-daughter relationship only gives her mental strength and that very special feeling while on stage.
		Her words should not come as a surprise given the fact that Anoushka is probably the only artiste in the world who has remained exclusively under the tutelage of her father.
		In fact she believes that it was her father’s strong influence that made Anoushka eschew the road to quick money and instant stardom and instead focus on carving a niche for herself in the chosen field of Indian classical music.
	www.bharatmatrimony.com /desimatchmaker/magazine31a.html (898 words)

	Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar, sitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With Ravi Shankar's compositions played by Anoushka and Ravi Shankar, the documentary gives a picture of Anoushka at a point in her life when she knows she wants to be a sitarist, and of her father who wants to teach her as quickly as possible, as much as he can.
		The Shankar family and friends cooperated in interviews, and tolerated the intrusion on their lives as I followed them on concert tours to California, Alaska, New York, Thailand, and India.
		Some of the ragas Anoushka Shankar plays live in the film are heard as fine studio recordings on the Angel CD "ANOUSHKA".
	www.me.uvic.ca /~art/anoushka.html (262 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Asia's Heroes - Anoushka Shankar
		Anoushka Shankar is equally comfortable in a silk sari as she is in hip-hugging jeans, and since the age of 13 she has made her sitar an instrument not just of a silky melody but of a cultural revival.
		Shankar, who was taught the fundamentals of the sitar by her father, who's now 84, is changing that by injecting freshness and energy into a somewhat stuffy art form, and broadening its appeal for a younger generation.
		Shankar's exotic beauty, prodigious talent and impeccable pedigree have made her a concert-hall favorite in the West.
	www.time.com /time/asia/2004/heroes/hanoushka_shankar.html (383 words)

	World Music Central - Anoushka Shankar Goes World Beat
		Anoushka Shankar has emerged from the shadows of her famed father and teacher Ravi Shankar in her latest offering, Rise, and journeyed beyond the musical traditions of India to create her own sound.
		Rise is a departure from her previous recordings Anoushka, Anourag, Live At Carnegie Hall in 2000, and with her father on Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000, but it's worth hearing Anoushka's lush compositions incorporating jazzy keyboards and driving world beats.
		Anoushka doesn't discard her Indian roots, but on Rise she steps back from the sitar on a couple of compositions to opt playing keyboards instead, connecting to a different musical flow by incorporating both acoustic and electronic instruments.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20050930200334648 (506 words)

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