Hey, I'm Nora Jones and today I'm playing along with Anushka Shankar.

My sister!

I'm just playing along with you.

I'm just playing along with you.

Hey, I'm Nora. With me as always is Sarah Oda. Hello, hello. Welcome to the show. We have a very

special episode today because we are keeping it in the family. Yeah, this is special. Our guest today

is Anushka Shankar. She's an amazing, brilliant, world-renowned sitar player. She also happens to be

my sister. Yes. We are half-sisters. And we have kind of an interesting story, which we'll get

into a little, but we basically both grew up as only children. And then we met

when we were 16 and 18. I was 18. Yeah. This episode, it was so cool because, you know, I've known

you for a long time, a long, long time. And I just, like, I know that your sister is a big part

of your story, you know, but I've only kind of gotten

bits and pieces over the years but like to hear you and her talk to each other about those

early stories about when you first reconnected and everything is so special because you know you each

kind of went on your own path and then met in this way. That's just so unique.

It is unique to us. We've also been close since we've, since we reconnected. And, you know,

we love each other a lot. I love her so much. Also, she is one of the most incredible musicians, I know.

She's a virtuoso. I was going to say she's virtuastic, but I don't think that's a word. Oh, that's so funny. How you said? Virtuastic, virtuoso. She's a virtuastic sitar player. She's definitely a virtuoso. Yes. A master. She's a master of the instrument and music in general.

Yeah.

I get to ask her about something that we've actually never talked about.

And that's when she started learning the instrument at a very young age from our dad,

who was a very famous and brilliant sitar player.

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