Gingger Music

When the swirling strains of the track 3rd World, with its giveaway Carnatic violin entry, wafts out of your speakers, you know you’ve met Gingger Shankar before.

When the swirling strains of the track 3rd World, with its giveaway Carnatic violin entry, wafts out of your speakers, you know you’ve met Gingger Shankar before. If the second name of this singer, composer and songwriter isn’t enough to pull you out of the fog, this should. She’s the only female player of the 10-string double violin. The same one played by her uncle L Shankar. Right now she’s making news at America’s Sundance Festival with her music for the film Circumstance. Haven’t heard of her? Gingger was the musical mind behind The Passion of The Christ and Charlie Wilson’s War. Listen up, the Smashing Pumpkins already have; Gingger was a special guest on the band’s 20th anniversary tour.