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Rahul Sharma

World music
With more than 26 soundtrack credits to his name, the Indian vocalist and musician Rahul Sharma is one of the premier exponents of India's most distinctive traditional instrument, the hundred-string santoor. Played with two lightweight wooden mallets the santoor requires great skill and dexterity to play and there are relatively few true masters of the instrument. Sharma began learning the santoor from the age of 13, taught by his father who was also a musician and a well known master of the santoor. When he was 24, having completed his studies at college in Mumbai, the young ...