Monday, August 12, 2013
PANDIT SHIVKUMAR SHARMA (born January 13, 1938, Jammu, India) is an Indian Santoor player. The
Santoor is a folk instrument from Kashmir and Jammu. Sharma is often referred to by the title Pandit.
He was born in Jammu to the singer Uma Dutt Sharma and his mother tongue is Dogri. His father started
teaching himvocals and tabla when he was just five. Uma
Dutt Sharma did "extensive research" on the santoor, and decided that
Sharma should be the first musician to play Indian classical music on the
santoor. So he started learning santoor at the age of thirteen, and made
his father's dream come true. He gave his first public performance in Bombay in 1955.
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