Sitarist
Anoushka Shankar
Sitar player taught by her father Ravi Shankar, and a composer working between Indian classical and electronic music. Born in London.
Anoushka Hemangini Shankar is a British-American sitar player and musician, 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.
- Born
- 1981-06-09, London, EnglandA Tuesday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Virgo
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1981-06-09, London, England · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Londonthe zone used then
Europe/LondonThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 18°30′ | Direct |
| Moon | Virgo | 18°14′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 5°12′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 5°07′ | Direct |
| Mars | Gemini | 3°01′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Libra | 0°41′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 3°00′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 27°14′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 23°37′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Libra | 21°40′ | Retrograde |
Anoushka Shankar is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Anoushka Shankar was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.