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Tunes of struggle
Updated On: 12 January, 2019 09:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Karishma Kuenzang
This 30-year-old jazz pianist's debut album is inspired by the obstacles full-time musicians face, their phases of self-doubt, compromises and the Game of Thrones
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Anurag Naidu was introduced to jazz via a Chick Corea track
He picked up the keys at the age of five, dreamt of becoming a classical concert pianist and finally got seduced by the improvisations in jazz. Since 2016, Anurag Naidu has played with many well-known musicians including Italian drummer Matteo Fraboni and American jazz vocalist Loretta Holloway, who have performed in Mumbai. And now, his recently released debut album is making all the right noises. But, honing his skills hasn't come easy, even though one might like to believe that being playback singer Shilpa Rao's brother would have helped.
Born in a family where his father had earned a degree in Hindustani classical music but picked engineering as his career, Naidu only started learning the piano when Hariharan, whom Shilpa was training under, suggested it. But Jamshedpur didn't have any teachers, so Naidu and his father would go on a five-hour train journey to Kolkata every Sunday for a two-hour class.
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