Anoushka Shankar

British-American musician

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2024 Anoushka received her tenth and eleventh Grammy nominations for Chapter II: How Dark it is Before Dawn and Jacob Collier's 'A Rock Somewhere.'
2024 The University of Oxford awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Music degree for her contributions to the field of music.
2023 Anoushka became the inaugural Visiting Professor of Music Business at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music.
2023 She received Grammy nominations in both Global Music categories for her album Between Us and for her performance on Udhero Na.
October 2023 In October 2023, Shankar signed the Artists4Ceasefire open letter to President Joe Biden, advocating for a ceasefire in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
2022 Anoushka Shankar released the album 'Between Us ...,' continuing her tradition of musical exploration.
2021 She was co-nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for the score of A Suitable Boy.
2021 Anoushka was nominated for a seventh Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Love Letters.
2021 She received the Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM).
2020 In November, she was nominated for the RTS (Royal Television Society) Craft & Design Awards for the music she composed for A Suitable Boy.
2020 Anoushka Shankar co-composed the score for Mira Nair's BBC six-part series A Suitable Boy, which is based on the novel by Vikram Seth.
2020 Shankar released Love Letters, an EP co-produced with various guest musicians featuring songs written across 2018-19.
2020 Anoushka Shankar was announced as the inaugural President of the F-List, a UK database designed to address the gender gap in the music industry.
2020 Shankar designed a pin for the 'Pin Your Thanks' initiative to support NHS charities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
November 13 2020 Anoushka Shankar was featured on 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' as part of the BBC Radio 2's Allstars' Children in Need charity single, which debuted at number 7 on the Official UK Singles Chart.
July 2020 Anoushka Shankar played on the track 'Ama La' on the Dalai Lama's first music album, Inner World, released on his 85th birthday.
June 2 2020 Anoushka Shankar participated in the global film festival We Are One, where she performed during the screening of her composition for the film Shiraz: A Romance of India.
2019 Anoushka Shankar released Reflections, a 20-year retrospective album revisiting the best of her cross-cultural back catalogue with Deutsche Grammophon.
September 2019 Anoushka Shankar finalized her divorce from Joe Wright.
2018 Shankar joined a coalition of musicians, actors, and artists urging MPs to support the Refugees Family Reunion Bill, aimed at reuniting refugee families torn apart by conflict.
2018 Anoushka won the 3rd Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) for the score to the 1928 BFI film Shiraz.
July 2018 Shankar embarked on a short US tour of Land of Gold to raise funds for the nonprofit organization Help Refugees.
February 2018 In February 2018, Shankar read a poem at Letters Live for Help Refugees, alongside performers such as Gemma Arterton and Florence Welch.
2017 Anoushka received a sixth Grammy nomination in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Land of Gold.
2017 Shankar scored the British Film Institute's restoration of the 1928 Indian silent film Shiraz: A Romance of India and performed her composition live at its premiere at the London Film Festival Archive Gala.
2017 She won the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) Award for Music for her outstanding achievements in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes.
2017 Anoushka Shankar narrated the documentary 'Stolen Innocence: India's Untold Story of Human Trafficking', which highlights the true stories of young women who escaped from sex slavery in India and Nepal.
2017 In 2017, Shankar co-wrote and performed the end-title song 'Gain the Ocean' for the biographical drama Victoria & Abdul, which starred Judi Dench and was directed by Stephen Frears.
December 2017 Anoushka Shankar separated from her husband, Joe Wright.
January 12 2017 Asteroid 292872 Anoushankar was named in her honour, with the official announcement published by the Minor Planet Center.
2016 Shankar helped gather names and signed a letter to The Guardian calling for action to assist Syrian refugees.
2016 She received a fifth Grammy nomination in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Home.
2016 Anoushka Shankar collaborated with Miloš Karadaglić on the track 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' for the album 'Blackbird: The Beatles Album.'
April 1 2016 Anoushka Shankar released her album 'Land of Gold' under Deutsche Grammophon.
2015 Anoushka Shankar gave birth to her second son.
2015 Anoushka was nominated for a fourth Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category for her album Traces of You.
July 6 2015 Anoushka Shankar released the album 'Home' via Deutsche Grammophon.
2013 Anoushka Shankar supported the One Billion Rising online campaign on Change.org, demanding an end to crime against women after the gang-rape of a young girl in Delhi, known as Nirbhaya. She released a video revealing her own experiences of sexual abuse during childhood.
2013 Shankar earned her third Grammy Award nomination for the album Traveller, which explores the shared history between flamenco and Indian classical music.
October 4 2013 Anoushka Shankar released 'Traces of You', her album through Deutsche Grammophon.
2012 Anoushka Shankar was featured on the track 'Ixtapa' in the album 'Area 52' by Rodrigo y Gabriela & C.U.B.A.
2012 Anoushka Shankar began her film scoring career by composing a Bengali lullaby for Joe Wright's film Anna Karenina, which featured Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Tannishtha Chatterjee.
2012 Anoushka won the Best Artist in the Songlines Music Award for her album Traveller.
2011 Anoushka Shankar signed with record label Deutsche Grammophon as an exclusive artist.
2011 Anoushka Shankar gave birth to her first son.
October 13 2011 Anoushka Shankar released her album 'Traveller' under Deutsche Grammophon.
2010 Anoushka Shankar married British director Joe Wright.
July 2010 Anoushka Shankar premiered Ravi Shankar's first symphony for sitar and orchestra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall.

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