Navin, his nephew who is a Punjabi film producer, informed that Sawan ji lost his life at 4:15 pm today due to a heart attack. Due to multiple organ failure, he died , , Sawan Kumar, bollywood
Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain stood alone at Mumbai crematorium when mortal remains of santoor wizard Pandit Shivkumar Sharma were consumed by leaping flames.
Mumbai, May 11: Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday paid tribute to Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma saying he was pained by the demise of the santoor virtuoso who was “humble despite his incredible presence”. One of India’s well-known classical musicians, the 83-year-old passed away on Tuesday morning following a heart attack at his Pali Hill house here. Sharma was also one half of the famous ‘Shiv-Hari’ composer duo along with flautist Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia. The duo had composed the […]
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 Jammu and Kashmir, and gave it global identity and classical pride.
MUMBAI, May 10: Santoor virtuoso Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, who took the stringed instrument to the global stage and successfully straddled the worlds of classical and film music, died here on Tuesday following a heart attack. He was 83. Sharma, one of India’s most well known classical musicians, died between 8 and 8.30 am at his Pali Hill residence here, his secretary Dinesh told PTI. He had been active till the end and was due to perform in Bhopal next […]