Shiv kumar sharma biography definition
Shiv kumar sharma.
Shiv kumar sharma biography definition
Shivkumar Sharma
Indian classical musician, composer (1938–2022)
This article is about the Indian classical musician. For Sharma's collaboration with musician Hariprasad Chaurasia, see Shiv–Hari.
Musical artist
Shivkumar Sharma (13 January 1938 – 10 May 2022) was an Indian classical musician and santoor player who is credited with adapting the santoor for Indian classical music.[2][3][4] As a music composer, he collaborated with Indian flautistHariprasad Chaurasia under the collaborative name Shiv–Hari and composed music for such hit Indian films as Faasle (1985), Chandni (1989), and Lamhe (1991).
Sharma was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986 and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan (India's fourth and second highest civilian awards) in 1991 and 2001.
Early life
Sharma was born to a Dogra[5] family on 13 January 1938, in Jammu in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in British India.[6] His father U