Since I was young, music always moved me in a way that I did not understand. I remember being 8 or 9 years old sitting at the kitchen table and banging away at it with my hands imitating the tabla melody playing on the radio. I used to do this wherever there was a solid object to hit. Kitchen counters, cabinets, door sills, windows, car doors were all feasible instruments. At that time, I never realized it but I was sub-consciously learning complex rhythms.Fast forward a few years, I found myself with a busted sound card on my old computer The new sound card that I bought, also came with an interesting loop based music production program called Mix Master. It was almost like a software version of the MPC. Having discovered this little gem, I found myself spending hours on end making music. I finally had actual drum sounds (I’m sure my dishwasher was happy). I would then burn my tracks onto a CD and listen to them on the way to school and play them in front of my friends.

I started to understand how to put different elements of music together and what sounds worked together in harmony. As it was, I was heavily involved in Music throughout my high school years. My instrument of choice (any guesses?) were the drums. After an arrangement with my band instructor, I would stay after school to play the drums and imitate all the different rhythms and patterns I would hear on Jazz, Rock and Hip-Hop Records.

At this point, I never had any ambitions to become a Music Producer. I was just a kid having a blast while trying to show off in front of the girls.

The defining moment was yet to come. It happened on the most ordinary of days. I was over at a friends house helping him put his computer together when I found a CD case laying on the floor. It was Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. Nothing special here, I had heard it a million times. But I decided to open it up and in there for the first time, I saw the picture which has led me here today. It was Dr. Dre standing over his MPC surrounded by records. Thats when it hit me, (I will get Steven Spielberg to recreate this moment on my autobiography), I wanted to become a Music Producer.

From Ravi Shankar to the Rolling Stones, my musical influences not only span continents, but also generations. Being born in India, and brought up in North America, I have deep rooted musical interests in both eastern and western music. Any discerning listener can hear this in my compositions.