{"id":22,"date":"2015-02-24T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:44:06","slug":"who","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"My Gurus"},"content":{"rendered":"

His Holiness Sri Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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His Holiness Sri Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji Maharaj (the spiritual head of Namdhari Sikhs) blessed Kiranpal Singh to be initiated into the art and intricacies of Santoor under the discipleship of the pioneer of Indian Classical Santoor- Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma in Bombay. Throughout his life, Kiranpal learnt Indian Classical Music at the lotus feet of Satguruji, \u00a0and performing his Santoor for Satguruji throughout His tours in U.K and India. He learnt layakari in Tabla – Bandishes and Sangat & Raag.<\/p>\n

Satguru Jagjit Singh is known as the ‘Master Musician’. He was\u00a0\u00a0the recipient of several Awards, including\u00a0Bhai Mardana Award, The\u00a0Sangeetacharaya Award, <\/strong>and the\u00a0Sangeet Maneesh Awar.\u00a0<\/strong>In 2012, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi,\u00a0honoured\u00a0Satguru Jagjit Singh by inducting him as a prestigious Tagore Fellow of the Akademi for his contribution to Indian classical music and dance. <\/span><\/p>\n

When His Holiness left for heavenly abode in 2012, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma paid this tribute:<\/span><\/p>\n

Our most revered and loved Great Sant Sadguru ji has left for heavenly abode. This is a very big loss for all his devotees around the world and particularly Indian classical musical fraternity. Sadguru ji was a rare example in Post Independent India who took the responsibility of supporting the Indian Classical Musicians and sent so many talented young Namdhari\u2019s to different Maestro\u2019s to learn this great Art and true Guru Shishya Parampara. Two of my foremost disciples who are spreading the message of our great Art Internationally are HarjinderPal Singh & Kiran Pal Singh.<\/strong> Sadguru ji brought them to me and did the traditional Ganda Bandhan ceremony. I had always received his blessings. He would visit my residence number of times and mostly we used to have long Music sessions in which Pt. Kishen Maharajji was also invited to play with me and Sadguru ji would himself perform on Dilruba and demonstrate a rare composition, composed by him and other great Masters. I can never forget his affection and love for me. One day i received a call and Sadguru ji was on an international flight and there he found out that in the aircraft there are phones from where you can call anywhere in the World. He asked his Sewadars to call Shiv Kumar Sharma ji as I want to talk to him. I was so surprised to hear Sadguru ji\u2019s voice when he was in a flight and felt how blessed i was with even from the aircraft he thought of calling me and giving his blessings. There are so many anecdotes which prove his love for Music and Musicians. I don\u2019t think its easy to have anyone else like him in near future. I have a suggestion that in memory of our most respected Sadguru ji an yearly festival of music should be organised at Bhaini Sahib, that will be areal fitting tribute which will make him so happy. We will always miss Sadguru ji. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma<\/strong> (born January 13, 1938) is an Indian Santoor player.\u00a0<\/span>The Santoor is a folk instrument\u00a0from Jammu and Kashmir.
\n<\/span>Pandit Shivkumar Sharma was born in Jammu to the singer\u00a0Uma Dutt Sharma\u00a0and his mother tongue is Dogri. His father started teaching him vocals and tabla when he was just five.\u00a0<\/span>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,\u00a0and made his father’s dream come true.\u00a0He gave his first public performance in Bombay in 1955.\u00a0Sharma married Manorama\u00a0and has two sons.\u00a0His son, Rahul,\u00a0is also a Santoor Player\u00a0and they have performed together since 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shivkumar Sharma is the master instrumentalist of the Santoor. \u00a0He is credited with making the Santoor a popular Classical Instrument.\u00a0He composed the background music for one of the scenes in Shantaram’s Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje<\/i>\u00a0in 1956. He recorded his first solo album in 1960.\u00a0In 1967, he teamed up with flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and Brij Bhushan Kabra to produce a concept album, Call of the Valley<\/i> (1967) which turned out to be one of the greatest hits in Indian Classical Music.\u00a0He has composed music for many Hindi films in collaboration with Hariprasad Chaurasia\u00a0<\/span>starting with Silsila<\/i>\u00a0(1980). They came to be known as the ‘Shiv-Hari’ music duo.\u00a0Some of the movies they composed music for that were big musical hits are Faasle<\/i> (1985), Chandni<\/i> (1989), Lamhe<\/i> (1991) and Darr<\/i> (1993).<\/span><\/p>\n

Shivkumar is the recipient of national and international awards, including an honorary citizenship of the city of Baltimore, USA, in 1985,\u00a0<\/span>the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986,\u00a0the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma<\/span> died on 10 May 2022 from a cardiac arrest. He was 84 years old. He received a state funeral at\u00a0Pawan Hans<\/a>\u00a0Juhu aerodrome, Mumbai, on 11 May 2022<\/p>\n

Shree Ripudhamman Singh<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kiranpal Singh first music study was the Tabla, which he pursued under the guidance of Shree Ripudhamman Singh of Punjab Gharana from 1970 to 1977.<\/span><\/p>\n

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His Holiness Sri Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji Maharaj (the spiritual head of Namdhari Sikhs) blessed Kiranpal Singh to be initiated into the art and intricacies of Santoor under the discipleship of the pioneer of Indian Classical Santoor- Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma in Bombay. Throughout his life, Kiranpal learnt Indian Classical Music at the lotus feet of Satguruji, \u00a0and performing his Santoor for Satguruji throughout His tours in U.K and India. He learnt layakari in Tabla – Bandishes and Sangat & Raag. Satguru Jagjit Singh is known as the ‘Master Musician’. He was\u00a0\u00a0the recipient of several Awards, including\u00a0Bhai Mardana Award, The\u00a0Sangeetacharaya…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8lK4w-m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiranpalsingh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}