Sharon Prabhakar

Sharon Prabhakar is an Indian singer and actress born in 1955 with a total of seven albums to her credit. She started her career as a singer during her college days at Lady Shriram College in New Delhi and sang at Mood Indigo, before performing in various musicals, notably Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret and the part of Evita in the musical of the same title directed by the Indian advertisement guru Alyque Padamsee. She was an accomplished stage actress and had been an integral part of the English Theatre scene in Mumbai. Later on in her career she presented a Bollywood programme Kya Scene Hai on Zee TV in 1995. She released several HIndi disco albums in the early 80s to mixed reviews. Her recent album Dilruba was released in August 2006. She has appeared as herself in a couple of Bollywood films apart from being playback singer for several songs.

Links To Peel
Peel was a big fan of records that had foreign language covers of English language pop songs. Amongst them, these included Chinese language covers of Madonna and George Michael: plus Hindi language covers of ABBA by Salma & Sabina. On his show on BFBS (Peel 077 (BFBS)) in 1988, a listener wrote in whether he had any copies of Hindi language songs of ABBA by Salma & Sabina. On this occasion, he did not, but he did have an LP by Sharon Prabhakar covering several pop songs in Hindi: one of them was a cover of Funkytown by Lipps Inc. After the track was played, Peel mentioned he may play next week Sharon's Hindi version of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry. Five years later, another listener wrote in on his show in 1993 requesting Peel to play a Hindi language cover that he heard on his show in the 80's. The listener thought it was a band called Sharon, but Peel corrected him to say that it was an Indian singer named Sharon Prabhakar.

Other Shows Played
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive and is certainly incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1988 1993
 * Peel 077 (BFBS): 'Aage Jo Hua (Funky Town) (LP-Disco Mastana)' (label unknown)
 * 05 November 1993: 'Aage Jo Hua (Funky Town) (LP-Disco Mastana)' (label unknown)
 * 20 November 1993 (BFBS): 'Aage Jo Hua (Funky Town) (LP-Disco Mastana)' (label unknown)