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Sitar virtuoso Jasdeep Singh Degun
makes history at Royal Philharmonic
Society Awards
IMAGE SOURCE,ROBIN CLEWLEY
Jasdeep Singh Degun is signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records
By Ian Youngs
Entertainment & arts reporter
British musician Jasdeep Singh Degun has said it is "an absolute honour" to
become the first sitar player to win a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.
Degun, from Leeds, was named best instrumentalist at the prestigious classical
music ceremony on Tuesday.
He told BBC News the prize was "testament to the hundreds of Indian classical
musicians in this country".
