Anoushka Shankar

Shankar said she decided to focus her new album, titled "Land of Gold," on the refugee crisis.

For her latest album, Home,Shankar has returned to the classical training she'd absorbed from her father, the late Ravi Shankar.

The name Shankar immediately conjures up memories of the great Ravi Shankar. The master sitar player inspired George Harrison’s foray into playing this…

The sitar player and composer's father, Indian music pioneer Ravi Shankar, died while she was recording her new album, Traces of You. Banning Eyre reviews the record, which features Anoushka's half-sister, Norah Jones.

The sitar-playing daughter of the late Ravi Shankar discusses teaming up with her half-sister, Norah Jones, on the new album Traces of You. Hear how their collaboration elicited an unexpected echo of their father's work, a sign that they were meant to work together.

Flamenco music is relatively new on the music scene (especially considering the long history of music as art), but still dates backs a couple of hundred…