Shobha Gurtu has been played on NTS in shows including Lyra Pramuk presents: Pop Soil, featured first on 9 April 2024. Songs played include Phagua Brij Dekkan Ko Chali Ri (Raga Basant).

Born Bhanumati Shirodkar, in Belgaum, (present Karnataka) in 1925, she was first trained by her mother Menekabai Shirodkar, a professional dancer, and a 'gayaki' disciple of Ustad Alladiya Khan of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana Though her formal music training began with ‘Ustad Bhurji Khan’, the youngest son of Ustad Alladiya Khan, the founder of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana in Kolhapur, from whom her mother was learning at the time, while she was still a younger…