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,
Norah Jones friend and future Little Willies member Richard Julian, and stopped to see the band play. After meeting Jones, Harris started sending her lead sheets of his songs. In 1999, Jones left Texas for New York City. Less than a year later, she started a band with Harris, and her recordings with them were bestsellers. Jones was a lounge singer before becoming a recording artist. Before releasing her first album, she performed with Wax Poetic, Peter Malick, and jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter. As Peter Malick states in the liner notes, "I started looking for a singer who could record [my latest