Shankar Raghuvanshi

Shankar Singh (15 October 1922 – 26 April 1987) was from Hyderabad. Shankar started his career with a theater group run by Satyanarayan and Hemawati, before shifting to Prithvi Theatre where he played tabla and performed some minor roles in plays. It was at Prithvi Theatre that he learnt to play and mastered several other instruments like Sitar, Accordion and Piano etc. Besides his work at Prithvi Theatre, he also started working as an assistant to the leading composer duo of Husnalal-Bhagatram and nurtured the ambition of becoming an independent music director.