Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an Indian musician and composer who was the foremost exponent of the santoor, a 100-string instrument similar to the hammered dulcimer, died Tuesday at his home in Mumbai. He ...

“These past two years have been brutal to the Indian classical music fraternity. We have lost several major pillars, and now, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma. His passing on is an end of an era,” Salil Bhat, ...

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The mere mention of santoor drags you to the musically beautiful world created by Pandiit Shiv Kumar Sharma. The legacy of the living legend is being carried forward by his son and disciple Pandit ...

Amitabh Bachchan paid tribute to Pandit ShivKumar Sharma, who began his journey in music as a tabla player when he was only five but soon found his calling in santoor, a stringed folk instrument from ...

Rahul Sharma, the son of santoor maestro Late Shiv Kumar Sharma, is visiting Australia. He has collaborated with Grammy-winning musicians like Kenny G, Richard Clayderman and Electronica group to ...

My father and guru bestowed the instrument to me, convinced of its potential. Santoor has also gained international recognition. By the mid-1960s santoor got recognition in Indian classical music and ...

Shivkumar Sharma, the Hindustani classical musician and co-composer of several memorable Bollywood film soundtracks for the late Yash Chopra, died on Tuesday in Mumbai. He was 84. Sharma, addressed by ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Indian classical santoor player Rahul Sharma, needs no introduction. Born in the ...

He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...

Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma, who elevated the 100-stringed hammered dulcimer to classical concert stages around the world, died Tuesday in Mumbai at age 84. He created a famously ...