Shankar releases “In Her Name” following her being the recipient of two new GRAMMY Award nominations in the “Best Global Album” category for her live album Between Us… (featuring Manu Delago, Jules Buckley, and the Metropole Orkest) and “Best Global Performance” category for her collaboration with Arooj Aftab, “Udhero Na,” from the Deluxe Edition of the Pakistani singer and composer’s Vulture Prince.
Shankar was the first artist of Indian origin to perform at the GRAMMYs (2005) and the first Indian woman ever nominated; she has received a staggering total of nine GRAMMY Award nominations over the course of her illustrious career.
In 2013, Shankar and her sister Norah Jones both accepted the Recording Academy’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” for their late father the legendary Ravi Shankar at the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2013). In 2021, Shankar performed for a second time at the Premiere Ceremony for the 63rd GRAMMY Awards.
Anoushka Shankar’s accomplishments is to read many life stories in one: masterful sitarist; film composer; impassioned activist; the youngest and first female recipient of a British House of Commons Shield; the first Indian musician to perform live or to serve as presenter at the Grammy® Award with seven nominations under her belt, and the first Indian woman to be nominated; one of the first five female composers to have been added onto the UK A-level music syllabus.
Immersed from a young age on the world stage, with over a quarter-century’s performing behind her, she is a singular, genre-defying artist across realms – classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic.
