Pt. Shivkumar Sharma - Santoor

This application tells you more about the famous Santoro Maestro “Pandit Shivkumar Sharma”. This application has been developed for thousands of fans of pandit Shivkumar Sharma worldwide.
He was born in Jammu to the singer Uma Dutt Sharma and his mother tongue is Dogri. His father started teaching him vocals 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 in1955.
Shivkumar is the recipient of national and international awards, including honorary citizenship of the city of Baltimore, USA, in 1985, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986, the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
This application is an honest effort to grab all the presence of Shivji and present it to his fans.