Sitar in Santiago

Found a sitarist "Karma Dharma" playing in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Apparently, the artist has never visited India and has never taken any formal lessons in playing the sitar or indian classical music. It was a pleasant surprise to hear him in the sacred city of Santiago...just captured some moments...Hope you enjoy!
Thanks to Joserra, Bea and Julio!

[@adityathakur3792]

It’s not a traditional Sitar, but with a electronic pick up and amplifier. Beautifully played. I convey my gratitude to the Artist. 🙏🙏

[@nixitha]

Pretty sure I saw the Miserab in his index :|

[@breathinginrhythm27]

Very talented. Never visited india but then how did he get to learn....he is a true artist. May god bless him.

[@karunashivshakti]

He looks like an Indian living in Santiago

[@varnamq3]

Like the many who never visited England yet play the guitar in India

[@elicapal]

santiago de compostela. spain

[@breathinginrhythm27]

@proud Dutchman 🤷‍♀️

[@justahumanbeing.709]

sitars actually not that hard to play, guitar is harder.

[@chaitanyanage4933]

It's funny how bunch of crowd is gathered in those violin videos but not many wait to listen to this beautiful piece of art.

[@BadAss_691]

Please don’t be so disdainful on the violin , it’s a beautiful instrument too… You can hear Dr Subramaniam….or his son or the violin brothers….

[@Maatkara1000]

Such a heavenly music in such an ancient and holy place... May God bless him immensely for his art.

[@amantedecapaldi4037]

Holy? Doubtful but nonetheless I agree with u

[@sajibsjb]

Neither ancient, nor holy but the music has brought some sanctity maybe

[@lll2282]

@@amantedecapaldi4037 huh? Sitar is instrument of gods used in indian classical music and temples

[@santhanam7128]

That smile on his face after his play shows his absolute satisfaction with his life. Spreading love with music!

[@ambarkukreti8448]

Indian classical music originates from the period of saam Veda (साम वेद) and it was primarily played and practiced in religious atmosphere of that era , just take a look of this man playing sitar ,in some south american city the expressions in his eyes are so pure and innocent this is the impact of Indian classical upon a person who engages with it .

[@haramanggapuja]

Northern Spain. Not South America.

[@smitapandey913]

I like the beautiful smile on his face 😇 Divine music ... Very talented 👏👏👏

[@HypnoDaddy]

beautiful

[@yashwin7388]

He looks lost and also enlightened at the same time 🧘

[@ravishankarprabhu2423]

So sad.😟

[@govindarajulu-kasturi9614]

Beautiful. Salutations to the Great musician playing Sitar God Bless Thanks

[@mkmeed]

Unbelievable but true...music is beyond the boundaries of nations religions...thanks for sharing such beautiful moments of love and light...

[@astronomo16]

I liked very much this artist

[@hrudanandapradhan2545]

Very rare heart touching vdo.wt a fascinating face.

[@akshaydhadwe9274]

This made my day...

[@lll2282]

He is such beautiful player God save such talented artists ❤️

[@sanjayupasani2049]

Very Melodious presentation. 👍👍👍. Sanjay S Upasani singer India. 🌞

[@akshaydhadwe9274]

Beautifully Played... beyond ecstasy...

[@tejindersingh3694]

Lovely

[@viki220477]

He is master 👌

[@asifsain7777]

Good job 👍

[@krishnakantrawal8800]

🌻सत्य मेव जयतु जयते🙏 बहुत खूब चु गया 💜से💚दिल❤️को🙏जय माँ भारती 🙏

[@akshaydhadwe9274]

Can't believe he didn't took professional training.....loved it...

[@theprolightingindia]

Beautiful!! By looking at his fingering techniques, doesn't look like he has formally learnt it. If his story is true then he is super talented.

[@gayatripradhan2054]

Owesome

[@anizi-saha]

This Raaaga is healing my mind..grande artiste❤

[@arayakhan560]

He's amazing he has must travel to Santiago from India i think i luv Sita ❤

[@anantsaxena5778]

Kyaa kala hai aapki........gazb!!!! Ishwar aapko apni aseem kripa se nawaze!!!

[@thomastiroch1770]

Very beautiful

[@ashokparwatkar7045]

Pt.Ravi Shankarji great Sitariest and very learned musician

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

I would say he was one of the greatest but there were and are many great sitarists and other indian classical musicians. He was great for sure but it is being said that his wife Anapurna Devi, the daughter of his teacher, was even greater but he never allowed her to perform, obviously because he was jalous and a male chauvinist. He taught his daughter Anoushka Shankar to be a great sitarist too though. Check her out on youtube. I found that Nikhil Banerjee's sitar playing had more depth, beauty and mastery than Ravi's. Nikhil's sitar teacher was Anapurna Devi, Ravi's wife. That proofs something about Anapurnas capabilities doesn't it? Also Ravi fathered a child in USA, Norah Jones, half sister of Anoushka. You see, he took all liberties and deprived Anapurna Devi. For that reason Osho, Bhagwan shree Rajneesh never allowed Ravi to perform in Osho's commune. Other greats like Usman Khan and Fayaz Husain Khan have though. Osho was always against repression of women. Man and woman are really one, so if you repress your woman you are repressed too actually. The master is a slave as well. Bounded by the master-slave relationship. Therefore not free. Also Vilayat Khan was legendary. You have to check out his son Shujaat Khan. He both sings and plays beautifully. And Shahid Parvez is a legendary master of the meend, bending of the string, and playing entire melodies that way. Superb. So Ravi was one of the many great indian classical musicians.

[@ashokparwatkar7045]

Yes - Ravishankarji made our Indian Classical Music popular in the World. and introduce Sitar everwhere in the World .likewise our other Popular leaned sitarist also devoted equally same.exmpl. Khan sab.Vilayat Khan etc.

[@ManinderSingh-xg4bt]

He is far better than bollywood's 21st century musician

[@Opgaming.485]

Thank you for uploading the wonderful man's talent. I salute .Kumar

[@SwaranjaliDelhi]

V v talent nice copy of Pt. Ravi Shankar ji Talented Artist..salute

[@SmartfoolGB]

Very well done sir

[@stutimoitra5855]

How beautiful is this!

[@mukeshadwani4695]

Beautiful

[@SonnetGomes]

wow...he is so good. Thanks for sharing.

[@Rudmyster]

I feel that and you are on the street without the right emotion coming back at you I’d love the hear you play when the mood is right.

[@basavabhanji4496]

Splendid 🙏

[@saddha1]

Beautiful composition! Wish he does well!

[@shapelessshapefromthebay8759]

Wizard🍻

[@SunilSharma-re1hq]

❤ kya baat hai 🙏💖

[@breathinginrhythm27]

May God bless him🙏

[@bir_deb]

scintillating eyes!

[@NidhinVinod-tt3tb]

If some plays sitar good it means the music has a beautiful emotion in it, And now heard it. Good work bro

[@deepbarchha7651]

🌞 🎩 . Also hats off to the creator, editor and narrator who beautifully presented the video

[@candyfloss184]

A Soulful Rendition.

[@Harivanshsharnam]

Realy mind blowing ❤🙏

[@vasavijagarapu]

Music is simply awesome

[@upendrasinhmahida6375]

He is just excellent...

[@DevikaOhri]

Spiritually soulful!

[@saidelhaloui8369]

جميل جدا مع الا سف انقرضت الادان الذواقة

[@searchapostateprophetabdul2398]

Yes

[@prachimukherjee5236]

Wonderful

[@ajeesheh3593]

Beautiful 💕👌🏼🙏🏻

[@jamesbeals7638]

Nice improvised tune on the Sitar, and from ~1:05 to 1:30 you can see a Hurdy Gurdy (Symphonia) in the store window behind him.

[@ajeesheh3593]

ദൈവത്തിന്റെ കരസ്പർശം എത്ര മാസ്മരികമായാണ് അദ്ദേഹം സിതാർവയ്ക്കുന്നത് 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@9704841800]

Beautifully music

[@sunnyarora4916]

Love it, Sitar is inherently satvik.

[@akshaydhadwe9274]

Reincarnation of Ravi Shankar...

[@rushikeshborse7297]

Real artist but they do not value that much they should get respect this is kalyuga people only wants loud music and artificial beats only ..

[@Samvisualarts]

We are now at the end of KaliYug. Satyug is hereeee

[@VijayKumar-ff1gr]

Really very nice ,BP decreasing, mind relaxing music, but no one lestening, bzy life, God bless you all.

[@MisterSingh.]

@@Samvisualarts Satyug will come, I am in Anand, so Satguru mere Naal Hai

[@rishitsrivastava7428]

@@Samvisualarts after kali yuga it is Dwapar yuga, then treta yuga and then comes sat yuga

[@Sarabheswaran7010]

By artificial our dude here is saying music made from electeonic instruments.

[@v9d13]

Nice sir... Go ahead continue... 💐💐💐🙏🙏

[@son_of_destiny]

Wow ♥️👌

[@JFACLC]

Excelente!!!

[@vagosinoficio8788]

Bellísima música del sitar

[@zorronour7792]

bravo

[@SunilSharma-re1hq]

❤

[@beautyofthenaturegardening7823]

Amazing !

[@the.dc.original]

Superb!! Plz upload more and more videos like this!

[@flashsitar2874]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5mVpJRpqdqsr9E more video for you

[@mkskitchen534]

Amazing

[@urmisaini3533]

Woowww👍👍👍👍

[@proffesordick4589]

A true master....

[@user-wt4bq7vh9v]

👌♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@asifsain7777]

Asif sain Jag Darshan sufi dhol drum 🥁

[@meharShahzad72]

❤❤❤❤

[@liberald8110]

রোদ্দুর রায় playing sitar after getting high..... But playing so well

[@JustFiddler]

aku juga cinta musik india. salam dari pulau bali

[@harishshenoy8663]

😊❤👏🙏👍

[@ajeesheh3593]

Grate artist

[@healingtunes137]

Very good effort. 🎉

[@RobertSlover]

beautiful! first "electric" sitar that sounded good to me. name of raga?

[@tejindersingh3694]

It's Raag Bhairavi

[@RobertSlover]

@@tejindersingh3694 thank you kind sir much appreciated!

[@nanditanandy4648]

wow

[@nalakanelaka798]

beautiful

[@user-leo_leo]

Sitar is very well played , but the question is from where tabla sound is cming.........

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

He is a magician. The tabla sound comes from nowhere. Magic. :)

[@vchandrashekar3653]

Wow good point. Does it mean that he is playing a recording and "lip-syching" or in this case "finger synching"? His fingers were moving quite in tune with the music????

[@bladefier1954]

There are so many apps which plays tabla and tanpura in loop Edit: many people use that actually they don't have to carry use instrument

[@traditionalshivamyogaschoo3411]

Om Shiva!

[@130995marco]

I AM PRESENCE, YOU ARE THE MASTER

[@sadanandsharma8429]

दिल खुश हो गया❤️❤️❤️

[@meharShahzad72]

🥰🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@rakeshpanwar5075]

Born artist.... His previous birth was in India....

[@karmadharmaproject]

Si,se que en otras vidas estuve en India,en está también,pero solo para recordar..

[@sabhaskarrao4301]

God gifted persons 🙌 ❤

[@VB-zk7ti]

Santiago de Кompostela!

[@therealcharismatron]

If you're gonna film, you gotta tip. Hope you did!

[@terrazetto]

hope you bought both CD's?

[@gorokobayashi2633]

The colors in the intro ;)

[@sirhsamaiti7786]

JOI MAA HORA KRISHNA JOI GURUDEV

[@icarius555]

El tio es buenísimo

[@girishkashyap5285]

He is a sitarist, then why tabla is playing in the background.

[@karmadharmaproject]

La tabla está grabada,y reproducida con el teléfono,mientras toco..

[@awhig2474]

Only difference is, in India, music education is taken like a worship and not used to earn/beg alms on the streets.

[@anuragrawat7925]

Proud to be Indian

[@marketmantrawithmahesh.3302]

It's beautiful. Lekin ye koi proud karne wali baat nahi hai Ham Indians chhoti se chhoti baat par proud karne lagte hai.. Over proud ho jata hai..

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

I have always felt that India was my home even though born and raised by dutch/german in Netherlands. I fell in love with indian classical music when I first heard it at 13 years old, and with yoga too. I went to India at 18 and stayed 2 years and studied indian classical music. Most importantly, met indian sages though. Turned out in our heart we are not bound by things like nationality or anything. On the surface though everything is supposedly separate and temporary. That is just an illusion though, as indian philosophy teaches us. In separation is always conflict, in union always peace. Diversity and union, outside and inside, like to wings to fly, a dance between time and timelessness.

[@vijayshanmug1055]

@@DutchmanAmsterdam Beautiful narrative of your journey and wisdom received, there is no separation in consciousness only ignorance.

[@darienedwards5886]

What is the song named? I can’t find it through Shazam but I’d like to hear the full raga

[@mumarali.2929]

MashaAllah.

[@devdulaldash7582]

How many instruments can you hear?

[@Conr454]

Is there any more of this person? Thank you!

[@AnuragGanguly]

I think this is the same person here kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6fbq3iDn6aIm7c

[@SmartfoolGB]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6fbq3iDn6aIm7c

[@SmartfoolGB]

@@AnuragGanguly its not as you well know you dkhead

[@meharShahzad72]

Good

[@chev574]

Amazing!!!!anybody knows his name or how to get his CD please?!!

[@MrSahincene]

His name is ''Karma Dharma'' i cant found the album entire internet.

[@karmadharmaproject]

Ya no tengo CDs..no toco en la calle,y borré todo lo que tenía en internet,lo siento,por gente como tú,pero me cansé de recibir críticas...