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Sodhi (Hardeep Deerhe) is a tabla player, singer and producer based in Glasgow, Scotland, whose work moves between North Indian classical music and Scottish folk, jazz and new music.

Sodhi began tabla at a young age with Professor Bhagat Singh of Phagwara, in a Punjabi line of teaching that goes back through Professor Darshan Singh Komal to Bhai Sain Ditta of Amritsar. Main training followed with Pandit Vijay Kangutkar, a disciple of Pandit Taranath Rao, with further study under Pandit Yogesh Samsi, Pandit Sadanand Naimpalli and Ustad Tari Khan, and jori and pakhawaj with Ustad Gian Singh Namdhari.

Sodhi has performed five times at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, including a live TV broadcast to 168 countries. In 2015 Sodhi became the first Scottish-born musician to play the Sawai Gandharva festival in Pune, as the opening act, and in 2016 opened the Alladiya Sangeet Sammelan in Mumbai. Other stages include the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Celtic Connections, WOMAD, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam and Eden Court, where Sodhi was joint lead artist on the Confluence 2026 commission Resonant Ground.

Sodhi plays with Naad-Hara and Bletherin, played live tabla in Kanpur: 1857, winner of the Charlie Hartill Award and a Fringe First at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, and appears on Paul Towndrow's Deepening the River, Anne Wood's When Mountains Meet, Homebound's Live in Germany and Utsav Lal's Piano Moods of Indian Ragas. Collaborators include Pandit Ayan Sengupta, Pandit Ramprapanna Bhattacharya, Mehboob Nadeem, Roopa Panesar, Fraser Fifield, Mischa MacPherson and Kathleen MacInnes.

Sodhi has also played tabla with Battlefield Band. Sodhi co-directs Glasgow Mela, sits on the board of Jazz Scotland and teaches Indian classical music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.