{"id":323390,"date":"2022-05-13T18:54:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=323390"},"modified":"2022-05-13T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:41:36","slug":"zakir-hussain-shivkumar-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/zakir-hussain-shivkumar-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain pays last respects to Pt Shivkumar Sharma, pictures go viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Legendary Santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away on May 10 due to a cardiac arrest. The musician&#8217;s demise was an end of an era in the music industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was cremated with full state honours in the presence of his family and close friends on Wednesday, May 11. Several renowned celebrities including Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain paid him his last respects which has grabbed attention on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A picture of the same is doing rounds on the internet wherein Hussain can be seen standing next to the funeral pyre of the musician. In another picture, Zakir Hussain can be seen shouldering the dead body of Pt Shivkumar Sharma wrapped in tricolour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have a look at viral pictures here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This photograph is grief, pain, love, beauty all rolled into one.<br><br>Ustad Zakir Hussain shouldering the mortal remains of his friend and creative associate Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma. <br>\ud83d\udc94 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hix9D2BlhI\">pic.twitter.com\/Hix9D2BlhI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nishtha Gautam (@TedhiLakeer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TedhiLakeer\/status\/1524968894808879104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ustad Zakir Hussain at Pandit Shivkumar Sharma&#39;s funeral, sending off a friend of many decades. Together they created magic on stage on numerous occasions. <br><br>Never seen a more poignant photograph <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DAdnPOTCl1\">pic.twitter.com\/DAdnPOTCl1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sanjukta Choudhury (@SanjuktaChoudh5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanjuktaChoudh5\/status\/1524816994742063111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away at the age of 84. Reports said that he was suffering from kidney ailments for the past six months and was on dialysis. Sharma has been credited to give a classical status to the santoor and making it as popular as other traditional instruments like the sitar and sarod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zakir Hussain and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma have created magic together on several stage shows across the world. Soon after the musician passed away, videos of their concerts went viral on social media. While Shivkumar Sharma gave Santoor worldwide recognition, Zakir Hussain is one of the finest Tabla players in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch the videos here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Do69SJpAKoU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pandit ShivKumar Sharma &amp; Ustad Zakir Hussain\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06RgWIpml2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born on January 13, 1938, in Jammu and Kashmir, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma started playing Santoor at the age of 13. He also collaborated with Indian flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia under the name Shiv-Hari. The duo composed music for blockbuster hit films like Silsila, Faasle, Lamhe, Chandni, and Darr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1991, the legendary musician was honoured with India&#8217;s fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri and India&#8217;s third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture of the same is doing rounds on the internet wherein Hussain can be seen standing next to the funeral pyre of the musician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":323394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tabla maestro #ZakirHussain pays last respects to Pt #ShivkumarSharma , pictures go viral","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[125714],"tags":[130932,130931],"yst_prominent_words":[52640,88459,41422,59409,9953,27163,12141,5605,7532],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/05\/13185320\/Zakir-Hussain.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323390"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=323390"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=323390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->