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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain have both stretched the boundaries of northern India’s Hindustani classical music: Sharma almost single-handedly introduced a new instrument, a trapezoidal hammered ...

Reverentially known as Pandit ("teacher"), Shivkumar Sharma took the hammered dulcimer from humble folk instrument to classical concert stages... Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma, who ...

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 ...

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