 During his entire music career that spanned from 1960 to 2002 he has played various string instruments in more than a 1000 songs and over 500 films.Gorakh Ramprasad Sharma (born 28 December 1946) is the son of a renowned trumpeter Pandit Ramprasad Sharma (popularly known as Babaji), who taught him the basics of music.He mastered the art of reading music notations from Babaji and the art of playing various string instruments.