What
is the history to your taking up Music – how did it come into being, your
journey (in brief)
In ways you can say that it was god-gifted to me. I always
had great great interest in music from my childhood ,I always used to see lord
Krishna with bansuri so at first I went to temple situated in my home at the
age of 4years and the first time I brought the gold bansuri from the Krishna
statue and tried to played the instrument
So
who are your favourites/ Icons/ Role Models in the field of music?
My only favourite icon/role model in the field is lord
Krishna who always lives in my heart and gives me motivation to do different
invention.
Does
your Music carry a message / a theme or a story ..if so can you share more on
it…?
My music carries a deep message of peace and energy because
my music is not related to noise or fixed compositions. It is related to
meditation, it is of the mind and soul by which I give energy and entertain the
people by not only Indian music but through my use of many type of flavours of
different countries, states and genre, by fusion of my music in western and
eastern.
Of
all the performances you’ve given, which is your favourite one and why?
I have performed all over the world but my favourite one is
the performance in Uganda: At that time, I was just 22 years and was invited in
a music conference in which all the legendry artists of India and other
countries were also there. That time when I entered the conference everybody
said that he is just a small guy, what can he play? And they laughed at me. But
when I started playing the bansuri a pin drop silence spread in all the
conference and people enjoyed my music so much and appreciated me by listening
to my own inventions and creations at just that small age.
Do
you have any interesting fan stories to tell?
In one of my concerts there was a young girl (foreigner). In
that concert I remember playing music therapy covering different moods. After
the performance when I went into the green room that same girl was present
here. When I inquired what she was doing there, she proposed to me (Laughing). At that time, I was just shocked as she was my
daughter’s age. Anyways after explaining the situation she finally understood.
Of
all the music you’ve created, which is your favourite one and why?
My one of the favourite is the composition which I recorded
recently on the flavours of Indian and western music. I like it personally
because it gives me energy and I used tabla in it as western drums which sounds
amazing.
Can
you share about some funny incident that happened on-stage / during performance
/ with you or the other artists / stage members?
One of the funny incident that I remember was that in one
of the concerts as soon as I had started playing the front mike fell on the chief
guest. The staff then had to use a rope to hang the mike.
How
has the musical journey been so far for you and what are you looking forward to
Its very difficult for me to explain this in few words. It
was very difficult and I struggled a lot to get my music noticed by the world.
For the future I have only one aim and that is to provide
real music, energy, peace to people and specially to get the youth involved in
Indian music and culture more than the western culture and music. To destroy
the mentality of people about music that it is just for entertainment. I have also written a book named “The definition
of music” to let people get in touch with the real music. It has been my
attempt that I can help the folks distinguish between different styles, fusion,
Indian and Western as well.
Do
you have any words of advice for youngsters who are thinking of getting into
this line?
I will suggest that to learn true music first find a true “Guru” not just a teacher
and do more and more Riyaz to get noticed because shortcuts will never help
you succeed and there are no shortcuts
to Riyaz and music.
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