Anoushka has been nominated for the coveted award thrice in the past. 'Traces of You' is her seventh album, and features her half-sister, Norah Jones, on the track 'The Sun Won't Set.'
'Traces of You' brings Anoushka together with London-based producer Nitin Sawhney to interweave Indian and electronic musical influences.
Writer-education activist Neela Vaswani has also been nominated.
Neela, born to an Indian father and Irish mother and founder of the Storylines Project with the New York Public Library, has been nominated in the Best Children's Album category for the audio book 'I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)'.
The Grammys ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on February 8.