{"id":108113,"date":"2022-05-11T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=108113"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:22:56","slug":"padma-vibhushan-pandit-shivkumar-sharma-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/padma-vibhushan-pandit-shivkumar-sharma-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Padma Vibhushan Pandit Shivkumar Sharma Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian music composer and santoor maestro Padma Vibhushan Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma passed away due to cardiac arrest. He was 84. He had been suffering from kidney-related issues for the last six months and was on dialysis. He gave the&nbsp;santoor,&nbsp;once a little known instrument from&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir,&nbsp;a classical status and exalted it along with other, more traditional and famous instruments such as the sitar and sarod. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma received the prestigious&nbsp;Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The career of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Born on January 13, 1938, in Jammu,&nbsp;he began learning santoor at the age of thirteen. His first public performance was in Mumbai in&nbsp;1955.&nbsp;He has been credited with popularising the santoor.&nbsp; Shiv Kumar was trained as a singer and tabla player by his father Uma Dutt Sharma, who was an accomplished Hindustani vocalist and musician.<\/li><li>Also, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma composed the background music for one of the scenes in the&nbsp;1956 film Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje.&nbsp;Four years later, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma recorded his first solo album.<\/li><li>With Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma composed music for several Hindi films, including&nbsp;Silsila, Chandni as well as Darr.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian music composer and santoor maestro Padma Vibhushan Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma passed away due to cardiac arrest. He was 84. He had been suffering from kidney-related issues for the last six months and was on dialysis. He gave the&nbsp;santoor,&nbsp;once a little known instrument from&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir,&nbsp;a classical status and exalted it along with other, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":108114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4047],"tags":[4916,1801],"class_list":["post-108113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2022","tag-national-current-affairs","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108115,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108113\/revisions\/108115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}