Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Hemangini Shankar born June 9 1981 is a BritishAmerican sitar player and musician of Indian descent as well as occasional writer and actor She performs across multiple genres and stylesclassical and contemporary acoustic and electronic She has received nine Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony Daughter of Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and halfsister of awardwinning singersongwriter and pianist Norah Jones she has released 7 solo studio albums since 1998