Sharon Prabhakar
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Sharon Prabhakar is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer, theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 personality and public speaker. She was an active singer in 1980s and 90s, with a total of seven albums to her credit.

Career

She started her career as a singer during her college days at Lady Shriram College, New Delhi & 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 advertisement guru Alyque Padamsee
Alyque Padamsee
Alyque Padamsee is an Indian theater personality and ad film maker. He is probably best known in the English-speaking world for playing Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the film Gandhi...

. She is an accomplished stage actress and has 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 a HIndi Disco album Chal Disco Chal in the early 80s to mixed reviews. Her new album Dilruba released in August 2006. She has appeared as herself in a couple of Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

films apart from being playback singer for several songs.

Personal life

She married Brian Mascarenhas in 1978 and separated in 1982. She then married Alyque Padamsee but is now separated.

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