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He has contributed on and albums by the trance group Juno Reactor, album by Jazz artist David Sylvian among others Deepak Ram"s grandparents were brought to South Africa to work on plantations. He was thus born in South Africa to second generation immigrants during the apartheid era in the 60s.
A few weeks after his birth, the family home was bulldozed under Group Areas Acting for effecting racial segregation.
The family thereafter settled in Sophiatown, a racially mixed area. His first flute was fashioned out of a drainpipe with six holes drilled arbitrarily on the sides.
Deepak Ram first traveled to India at the age of 17 where he received training in classical Indian music under the tutelage renowned flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and the late Shri Suryakant Limaye. Before passing away, the latter bequeathed a collection of flutes to Ram.
