Anoushka Shankar's 難民 album vies for Grammy
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar was 指名するd for a Grammy Award on Tuesday for her album 奮起させるd by the 全世界の 難民 危機, 争う with 退役軍人 勝利者s in the world music 部類.
"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 産業's 祝祭 in Los Angeles on February 12.
Shankar wrote the album as she 反映するd on her 親族 慰安 after giving birth to her second child just as a historic number of people fled Syria and other war-torn countries for Europe.
Siatrist Anoushka Shankar, pictured in 2012, is in the running for Best World Music Album at the Grammys ?Manjunath Kiran (AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
"Music is for me at least a way of 答える／応じるing to the world and 過程ing my feelings, not always consciously," she told AFP after 解放（する）ing the album, which is 大部分は instrumental.
It is the sixth Grammy 指名／任命 for the 35-year-old Shankar, although she has never won. Her late father Ravi Shankar, who popularized the Indian classical 器具 in the West, won two Grammys on his own and two more in 共同s.
The Grammy 部類 for world music, long 支配するd by a small group of artists, this year has one fresh 指名する -- Celtic Woman.
The prolific all-woman Irish ensemble, which brings New Age elements to 伝統的な Celtic music, was 指名するd for "運命."
Two 伝説の Brazilian songwriters and political 行動主義者s, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, were 指名するd for a live 二塁打 album.
"Dois Amigos, Um Seculo de Musica" ("Two Friends, a Century of Music") was 記録，記録的な／記録するd in Sao Paulo last year as the two septuagenarian artists went on a world 小旅行する.
Gil has won two Grammys 以前, while Veloso has won one on his own.
Other 指名された人s 含むd cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who has raked in an impressive 17 Grammys over his career but never in the world music 部類.
Yo-Yo Ma was 指名するd for "Sing Me Home," the French-born Chinese American's 最新の album with his 発展させるing Silk Road Ensemble that 調査するs music from across the historical Silk Road that connected Eurasia.
The South African all-male choral group Ladysmith 黒人／ボイコット Mambazo, which has won four Grammys, was 指名するd for its 最新の album "Walking in the Footsteps of Our Fathers."
Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo, one of Africa's 主要な artists, won the award the past two years but did not have a new album 適格の for 論争.
