anoushka shankar’s refugee album vies for grammy
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Anoushka Shankar
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Sitarist Anoushka Shankar was nominated for a Grammy Award on Tuesday for her album inspired by the global refugee crisis, vying with veteran winners in the world music category.
“Land of Gold,” which features rapper M.I.A. and spoken word by actress Vanessa Redgrave, is in the running for Best World Music Album at the music industry’s gala in Los Angeles on Feb. 12.
Shankar wrote the album as she reflected on her relative comfort after giving birth to her second child just as a historic number of people fled Syria and other war-torn countries for Europe.
“Music is for me at least a way of responding to the world and processing my feelings, not always consciously,” she told AFP after releasing the album, which is largely instrumental.
It is the sixth Grammy nomination for the 35-year-old Shankar, although she has never won. Her late father Ravi Shankar, who popularized the Indian classical instrument in the West, won two Grammys on his own and two more in collaborations.
The Grammy category for world music, long dominated by a small group of artists, this year has one fresh name — Celtic Woman.
The prolific all-woman Irish ensemble, which brings New Age elements to traditional Celtic music, was nominated for “Destiny.”
Two legendary Brazilian songwriters and political activists, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, were nominated for a live double album.
“Dois Amigos, Um Seculo de Musica” (“Two Friends, a Century of Music“) was recorded in Sao Paulo last year as the two septuagenarian artists went on a world tour.
Gil has won two Grammys previously, while Veloso has won one on his own.

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