Rishab Sharma

About Rishab Sharma

For Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, music isn't a profession; it's a breath, a memory, an inheritance. Born into a family that has been making and repairing instruments generation after generation, the first lessons of Rishab weren't in classrooms but in the silent hum of tanpuras being tuned and sitars being shaped by hand. His father's workshop in Delhi was his first stage: the smell of wood, varnish, and sound.

He wasn't allowed to touch the instruments at first; they were too sacred, too delicate, intended for masters. But one day, when a broken sitar came back for repair, Rishab picked it up. He strung it back together, pressed his fingers to the wires, and something within him answered. That was the beginning.

Years later, that boy would be the youngest and last disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sitar legend who changed how the world heard India. From that moment on, the path for Rishab was clear: not to imitate but to evolve. He took classical ragas and poured them into the rhythms of a restless generation.

Rishab's sound lives between centuries, steeped in tradition, pulsing with the language of now. He fuses the sitar with hip-hop beats, electronica, and spoken word, creating a soundscape that is ancient and new all at once. His project Sitar for Mental Health began as an experiment in silence and healing but quickly became a global movement-a chance for audiences to breathe, reflect, and reconnect to stillness through music.

He has performed everywhere-from the White House to Delhi's massive open-air concerts, from intimate meditative gatherings to stages where thousands sway in unison. But Rishab's art doesn't chase applause; it chases presence. He plays to remind people that stillness is not the absence of sound; it's where the sound begins.

Every note he strikes feels like a reminder that, in a world of noise, sometimes one instrument played with soul manages to make you remember what it means to be human.