And here’s all you need to know about the icons who have put India on the global music map.

ricky cage

Bengaluru-based Ricky Cage received a Grammy Award nod for Break of Dawn in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category. With three Grammy wins, this is his fourth nomination. He won his first Grammy in 2015 for Winds of Samsara with Wouter Kellermann. He won his second Grammy for his album Divine Tides, a collaboration with artist Stewart Copeland. He is an environmentalist and his music reflects this.

Anushka Shankar

Anushka Shankar has received two nominations. They are nominated in the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album category for their album Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn. His second nod is for his performance on British multi-instrumentalist and singer Jacob Collier’s song, A Rock Somewhere. He is in the running to win the award in the Best Global Music Performance category.

Anushka is the daughter of the late Ravi Shankar, and performs in a range of styles and genres, including classical and contemporary. He has a long association with the Grammys. In 2006, she became the first Indian to play at the Grammy Awards and has earned more than nine Grammy Award nominations to date.

-Radhika Vekariya

Indian-origin British artist Radhika Vekariya is in the running to win Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album for her album Warriors of Light. The album sees Radhika singing in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil and English. Warriors of Light is their second album, following 2020’s debut album Sapt: The Seven Ways. Radhika, a resident of Los Angeles, was born in the UK. His parents are from East Africa and his grandparents are from India. His mother, grandmother and father were connoisseurs of classical Indian music.

Chandrika Tandon

The Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album category also includes entrepreneur and artist Chandrika Tandon’s album Triveni. He worked on the album with flautist Wouter Kellermann and cellist Eru Matsumoto. She is the elder sister of Indra Nooyi. Chandrika grew up in a middle-class home in T Nagar, Chennai, and studied at Madras Christian College. Chandrika, who learned music from classical singer Shubhra Guha and singer Girish Vajalwar, was nominated for her first Grammy in 2010 for her album Om Namo Narayana: Soul Call.

Varijashree Venugopal

Bengaluru-based singer, flautist and composer Varijashree Venugopal has been nominated alongside Anushka Shankar in the Best Global Music Performance category for A Rock Somewhere.

This is his first Grammy nomination. Venugopal also contributed to Ricky Cage’s album Break of Dawn.

Noshir Modi

Another Indian talent to feature in the list is Mumbai-born musician Noshir Modi. He received his first Grammy nomination. He has been included in the Best Global Music Performance category. He is part of Masa Takumi’s Song Kashira along with Ron Korb and Dale Edward Chung. Noshir is a self-taught musician who moved to the United States at the age of 22. According to her website, she has “honed her guitar skills and immersed herself in the vibrant New York City jazz scene.”