​I strongly believe that my music is in my genes. When I was young, I couldn’t persuade my parents to get formal music lessons for me from the music teacher who used to visit our home to impart rudimentary lessons to my sister. I would listen to the teacher from a nearby room. That convenience was short lived as the music teacher decided to stop tutoring my sister because of her utter lack of interest in the art! So, I turned to my mother. She is a very accomplished musician and plays the veena. She was a professional artiste for the then All India Radio. This was a private arrangement with my mother. I learned the fundamentals from her – of course the Carnatic Music. 

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