“Usually, I really only look at any one particular album at a time when I'm making it. I've never really sat and looked at the journey through all of my albums to see if I could find a thread through them.”

British-American sitar player and musician, born 1981

Anoushka Shankar is a British-American sitar player and musician, with work as an occasional writer and actress. Born in 1981, she has built a career that spans classical and contemporary music, and both acoustic and electronic settings. She began releasing solo studio albums with Anoushka in 1998 and has since issued seven in all. She has also collaborated with a range of musicians, including Karsh Kale on Breathing Under Water in 2007 and her father, Ravi Shankar. Her career has brought her 14 Grammy Award nominations, and she was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live at the ceremony and to serve as a presenter there.