Making Music, playing mandolin and humming songs is something I can sit and do the entire day and night! For real! I am fortunate to have parents with deep love and interest in music, especially my dad. It was my dad who introduced music to me when I was two, the age when most kids hardly spoke and I was learning musical notes. My first solo singing stage performance was at the age of 6 in front of 300 people in MD, USA. Music runs in the family and I thought I was just going with the flow!! I didn’t feel the inner passion until I started learning electric mandolin from my dad formally at the age of 11. Within a couple years I started picking up more than my imagination and started to feel a special bond with my dad and my instrument as I played with him side by side on stage. It was covid time when I really took my interest seriously and started recording and performing virtually.
I have learned and played electric mandolin in gayaki style with raga based Hindustani classical music. Hindustani ragas are pre-set definite notes sung and played together. Gayki style of playing is when you play your instrument emulating a ‘singing voice’. It’s one of the most difficult yet melodious ways of playing a string instrument.
I have played on stage at several occasions on invitation and have had a chance to make so many memorable memories. I am also associated with a local band called “Strange Curry” who plays Hindustani and Bollywood music in Nashville. My first concert with them was at Mockingbird Theater in Franklin, TN
I cannot vision myself without my music and mandolin. It helps me stay calm and focused.
Fitness:
Going out for hikes, playing badminton in my backyard and playing table tennis at the sports club is what makes up the bulk of my fitness regime. Soccer used to be my favorite sport once upon a time but could not pursue it longer after covid and I started to cling more on badminton and ping pong instead. I like biking, wall climbing and swimming. I am also a Taekwondo brown belt.