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Of The Year. He later won Best World Kej, who got the 2015 Best New Age Album
Music Album in 2002 and 2013, besides Award for his album Winds of Samsara, his
being honoured with the Grammy Lifetime collaboration with South African flautist
Achievement Award in 2013. Interestingly, and composer Wouter Kellerman.
both the World Music albums he won
actually consisted of Indian classical
raags, completely different from the others
nominated.
Mumbai-born western classical conductor
Zubin Mehta had a successful run at the
Grammys, winning two awards in 1981 and
1990, besides one in 1982. His iconic album
In Concert, featuring operatic tenors Jose
Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano
Pavarotti won the Best Classical Vocal
Performance in 1990, besides being the
highest selling classical album ever. Of
course, Mehta’s competition was also in the
broader western classical genre, making it
easier for the jury. Anoushka Shankar – Nominated 7 times without a win
Besides classical albums, Indian musicians While all these were the winners,
also won for experimental projects. Tabla Anoushka Shankar has been nominated
maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain and ghatam seven times, but not won the award. Of
exponent Vikku Vinayakram were part course, she accompanied her father Ravi
of ace drummer Mickey Hart’s world Shankar on the album Full Circle, which
percussion album Planet Drum, which won won the 2002 award.
the 1991 Best World Music Album. The Kej’s album Divine Tides is a unique
following year, Mohan Veena (Indianised collaboration, featuring drummer Stewart
guitar) player Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Copeland, formerly of the band The Police.
won in the same category for A Meeting By The album has some wonderful Indian
The River, his collaboration with American sounds, with some brilliantly shot videos to
guitarist Ry Cooder. go alongside. It contains nine songs, inspired
Zakir Hussain was part of Global Drum by subjects as diverse as nature, adventure
Project, along with Hart, congadrum genius and Mahatma Gandhi.
Giovanni Hidalgo and talking drum expert Of course, it faces some stiff competition in
Sikiru Adepoju, which won a Grammy in the New Age category, with the other four
2008. Other winners have included A. R. nominees being past winners themselves.
Rahman, whose Slumdog Millionaire got Kellerman, who collaborated with Kej on
the 2008 Best Soundtrack for a Motion Winds of Samsara, is now nominated for the
Picture and Best Song Written for a Motion album Pangaea with American composer
Picture (for ‘Jai Ho’, with Gulzar), and Neela David Arkenstone. American artiste Laura
Vaswani, who got Best Children’s Album Sullivan’s Pieces of Forever and guitarist
for I Am Malala in 2015. This was besides William Ackerman’s Brothers featuring Jeff
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