VOICE OF THE MOON
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR
Songwriter: Anoushka shankar
LIVE COUTANCES FRANCE 2014
Country: Indian/england
Album: rise
Label: angel records
Genre: Indian music
Year: 2005
Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is a British Bengali sitar player
and composer. She is the daughter of Pandit Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Rajan, and the half-sister of Norah Jones.
Shankar was born in London and her childhood
was divided between London and Delhi.
She is the daughter of Sukanya Shankar and Bengali-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 honors graduate and
Homecoming Queen, Anoushka decided to pursue a career in music rather than
attend college.
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.
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. 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. Shankar commented on this
decision stating that: "As a musician, this is how I speak, how I express
the anger within me [...] our entire tour has been changed by these events and
even though the structure of the concert may remain the same, emotionally
perhaps we are saying a lot more."
Rise is an album by Anoushka Shankar released on 27 September 2005. The album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's
Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005 (#82). On previous recordings, Anoushka Shankar
had followed in the footsteps of her father, Ravi Shankar,
by performing relatively traditional, raga-based
music. Rise, by contrast, incorporated jazz,
pop,
and pan-ethnic world music textures in an unpredictable melange. At the center of it all are
Shankar's sitar expertise
and traditional Indian roots.
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