# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anoushka-shankar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:00:30.214Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anoushka-shankar"
name: "Anoushka Shankar"
slug: "anoushka-shankar"
description: "Anoushka Hemangini Shankar is a British-American sitar player and musician of Indian origin, as well as an occasional writer and actress. She performs across multiple genres and styles—classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic. In addition to releasing seven solo studio albums beginning with Anoushka (1998), she has also worked alongside a wide variety of musicians, including Karsh Kale on the full-length collaboration Breathing Under Water (2007) and her father Ravi Shankar. She has received fourteen Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony."
tagline: "British-American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anoushka_Shankar_-3578.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1981-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.937436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/shankaranoushka"
    handle:    "shankaranoushka"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AnoushkaShankar"
    handle:    "AnoushkaShankar"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788154/"
    handle:    "nm0788154"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MTByljF8u5omBltY2VKPU"
    handle:    "6MTByljF8u5omBltY2VKPU"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.anoushkashankar.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "أنوشكا شنكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "অনুষ্কা শংকৰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar"
    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar"
    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar"
    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_(Mawa%C6%99in_Masar)"
    title: "Anoushka (Mawaƙin Masar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "अनुष्का शंकर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Անուշկա Շանկար"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar"
    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ანუშკა შანკარი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಅನುಷ್ಕಾ ಶಂಕರ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%88%84%EC%8A%88%EC%B9%B4_%EC%83%B9%EC%B9%B4%EB%A5%B4"
    title: "아누슈카 샹카르"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "انوشکا شنکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100212"
    title: "Anoushka Shankar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump