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Dressed in a multicolour floral Rahul Mishra gown from his Fall 2022 couture collection and tied up hair in a neat bun, Indian sitar player and nine-time Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar sat on stage inside the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles amid some of the most significant international names in the music industry during one of music’s most glittering nights and gently touched the notes of raag Bhairavi. She played on the piece Udhero na – a song written and sung by Pakistan’s first Grammy winner and Brooklyn-based singer, Arooj Aftab, who’d won the award last year for reinterpreting Mehdi Hassan and Hafeez Hoshiyarpuri’s famed ghazal, Mohabbat karne wale kam na honge. She’d found much criticism then for not crediting the original artistes in her acceptance speech, and no acknowledgement for Hassan anywhere.
Udhero na, the collaboration between Shankar and Aftab was nominated in the Best Global Music Performance category. It was a piece that had appeared on the deluxe edition of Aftab’s breakout album Vulture Prince. Mohabbat was part of the original album.
At this year’s Grammys, Shankar was also nominated in the Best Global Music Album category for Between Us – her recent project – comprising her older compositions, reinterpreted in a contemporary orchestral space. The album was recorded in 2018 during concerts in the Netherlands and has a plethora of artistes collaborating with her on music from four of her past solo albums – Rise (2005), Traces Of You (2013), Traveller (2015) and Land of Gold (2016). The nomination was interesting because a live album made it to the list.
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