Official Music Video

Those Words ft. Shilpa Rao, Ayanna Witter-Johnson

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka says: ´It all started with Jamaican food. Cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson came over with an open heart, a secret recipe and the seed of a new melody, which I tended and helped grow. We wrote a poem about memories, loss, and nostalgic words. Shirin Anandita took our original poem and helped it evolve into beautiful Punjabi lyrics of her own. Finally, Shilpa Rao shared her gorgeous voice with us to bring those lyrics to life.

Meet the artist

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar (1981) is a British-American sitar player, composer and producer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and half-sister of Norah Jones. Starting music training at the age of eight and releasing solo albums since 1998, Shankar produces and composes music that fuses Indian classical music with electronica, folk and art pop. She has toured extensively worldwide, received multiple Grammy nominations and collaborated with legends from Herbie Hancock to Sting and Lenny Kravitz.

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