Growing up in a musically-inclined Parsi Zoroastrian family from Mumbai, Farrokh Shroff was drawn to the “aggressive” guitar tones of classic rock bands Led Zeppelin and Ozzy. He would then recreate the bright, crisp and boomy sounds on his six strings. “This organically led me to record and engineer my own music as a hobby. I have always been more interested in the relationship between chords and melody than rhythms,” says the Peddar Road resident. 

Shroff, 29, is one of the youngest talents getting noticed on the Los Angeles music scene. He was on the production sound team of the Oscar-nominated short, Walk Run Cha-Cha, and was also recording engineer for Calm meditation app by pop singers Shawn Mendez and Camila Cabelo. Shroff is also behind the FOH (front of house) mix for Grammy award-winning American rapper Lupe Fiasco’s live performance of his album, Food and Liquor, at the Nokia theatre in LA. “A month before graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, I visited LA for a few job interviews at local studios and ended up landing one. It [LA] was my first choice because, as an aspiring engineer, I knew about all the historic studios in the city and wanted to work my way up or into those studios.”