# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shivkumar-sharma
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:46:45.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shivkumar-sharma"
name: "Shivkumar Sharma"
slug: "shivkumar-sharma"
description: "Shivkumar Sharma was an Indian classical musician and santoor player who is credited with adapting the santoor for Indian classical music. As a music composer, he collaborated with Indian flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia under the collaborative name Shiv–Hari and composed music for such hit Indian films as Faasle (1985), Chandni (1989), and Lamhe (1991)."
tagline: "Indian classical musician (1938–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pandit_Shivkumar_Sharma_Santoor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-01-13"
deathDate: "2022-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.55018666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0788919"
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    url:       "http://www.santoor.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump