Anoushka Shankar

Musician, Composer and Activist

Anoushka Shankar is a musician, composer and activist who experiments across multiple genres from neo-classical to global and electronic. Based in London, the Indian recording artist has thirteen solo albums and eleven Grammy nominations to her name. She is the first ever Indian woman to perform live and present at the Grammy Awards. Shankar has played the sitar and studied Indian classical music since the age of nine, and today she has performed in symphony halls and to festival crowds as big as 40,000. Her collaborations include Sting, the Dalai Lama, Jacob Collier and Patti Smith. Shankar is one of the first female composers to be added to the UK A-level syllabus, and she has recently received an honorary degree in Music from the University of Oxford.