Anoushka Shankar Anoushka Shankar Anoushka Shankar (Bengali : অনুষ্কা শঙ্কর) (born 9 June 1981) is a British Indian sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Norah Jones. Anoushka was born in London and her childhood was divided between London and Delhi. She is the daughter of Sukanya Shankar and 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, Anoushka lived in Encinitas, California,
Michael Jones (Welsh-French musician) Michael Jones (Welsh-French musician) Michael Jones (born 28 January 1952) is a Welsh singer, guitarist, and songwriter who lives in France. He has made several hit albums and toured as trio Fredericks Goldman Jones (formed by Michael Jones, French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and American singer Carole Fredericks) and collaborated on a number of songs with Goldman. Jones was born in Welshpool of a Welsh father, John Merick Jones (who landed in Normandy during World War II) and a Norman mother, Simone Lalleman. As a young man, he studied drums and guitar. In 1966, he started his first group: Urban District