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Anoushka Shankar (अनुष्का शंकर) (b. 1981), is a sitar player and composer from India. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Shankar. She began playing sitar under her fathers guidance at the age of nine and blossomed into a wonderful musician. She is becoming increasingly known for not only her recital work but for her own classical Indian compositions. Born on 9th June 1981, when Shankar was eight years old her father began training her in the sitar. She gave a public performance at the age of thirteen; since then she has become a world...

Music of the Gourishankar - is the music of northerner, who is living on the joint of Europe and Asia, near the Ural Mountains (http://www.gourishankar.com). Though musicians call their music "The music for mystical dancing in the opium saloons", all up-to-date creativity of the Gourishankar is based on progressive rock basis. The musicians experience the life through unexpected enlightenments, reflection and meditation, spontaneous insights. In their music musicians are trying to unite the rationality and evolutionism of the West and Eastern mysticism and spontaneous. The band was formed in 2002 in small provincial city Syktyvkar by guitar player Nomy Agranson...

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was an Indian musician best known for his fusion of Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanushree Shankar. Born in Almora, Uttar Pradesh, India, Ananda was the son of Amala and Uday Shankar, popular dancers. He was also the nephew of renowned sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar. Ananda did not learn sitar from his uncle but studied instead with Dr. Lalmani Misra in Varanasi. In the late 1960s Shankar travelled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix. There he was signed to Reprise...

The sitarist and nephew of Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 - 26 March 1999), joins with the DJ and producer Sam Zaman, also known as State of Bengal, to create a fusion where Indian traditional music, sitars and tablas meet western guitars, hip-hop and breakbeats. In the late 1960s Shankar traveled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix ad recorded his first album utilizing Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits such as The Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash and The Doors' Light My Fire. Returning to India in...