<\/a>Renowned Indian santoor player Shivkumar Sharma died in Mumbai on Tuesday morning, reports NDTV. According to the report, Shivkumar Sharma died following a heart attack. He was 84.
\nThe report, referring to Shivkumar\u2019s secretary Dinesh, said that Shivkumar Sharma died between 8:00am and 8:30am at his Pali Hill residence in Mumbai.
\nHe is survived by his wife Manorama and sons Rahul and Rohit.
\nShivkumar Sharma was born in Jammu in 1938. He is considered to be the first musician to play Indian classical music on the santoor, which is a folk instrument from Jammu and Kashmir.
\nThe santoor maestro composed the background music for one of the scenes of film Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje in 1956 and recorded his first solo album in 1960.
\nShivkumar Sharma received many prestigious awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986, the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001, Pandit Chatur Lal Excellence Award in 2015 and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renowned Indian santoor player Shivkumar Sharma died in Mumbai on Tuesday morning, reports NDTV. According to the report, Shivkumar Sharma died following a heart attack. He was 84. The report, referring to Shivkumar\u2019s secretary Dinesh, said that Shivkumar Sharma died between 8:00am and 8:30am at his Pali Hill residence in Mumbai. He is survived by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,14120,14119],"yoast_head":"\n