Inside Mananjay Prakash
My story is based on a Musician, his name is Mananjay Prakash, he lives in C.R park (New Delhi) with his mother and younger sister.
He plays at gigs for his earnings, in a day he plays at two places and the duration of performance is 3 hours, he doesn’t find it a stable way of earning, his sister also plays gigs and they both help their mother financially.
He did his schooling from Air Force Bal Bharti Lodhi road and used to participate in school competitions a lot he was introduced to music at a very young age.
“My dad used to listen to Ohso music when I was young so music was always there in the environment”
-Mananjay
His dad had old castes of songs which he used to listen for hours, he said that “music can also be learned by hearing songs and then practicing”, After marriage, his mom was doing theatre in the speared time from her job.
“When Manan was young, I used to take him with me while I was traveling for my theatre performances, I guess maybe that influenced him and exposed to arts”
-Mananjay’s mom
His mom also owned a dubbing studio, which was their source of income for some time, after which Mananjay started learning guitar, he used to bunk classes in school and attended western music classes.
He wants to get a proper education in music, after school, he wanted to join Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music in Chennai but could join it, though after graduation he completed a semester from Global Music Institute Noida.
He is a self-learned vocalist and he wants to teach also, he feels teaching is respectable and after learning properly one can teach also and teaching could be a stable way of earning where he can also focus on his own music, he says
“As an artist creating own work is important and it is the only thing which satisfies him, money can only help him but being creative and making own work is what he prefers’’
-Mananjay
He taught his sister guitar, piano, and singing, his sister also plays gigs and she is a painter too, she also self-learned painting and discovered her own genre.
As a musician practice is very important and after waking up the first thing, he do I either play guitar or piano he feels it helps him stay connected with music every time.
He is currently playing at different cafes in a day on a contract of playing 2 days in a week, for which he has to travel a lot, right now he is trying to collect enough money to invest properly on his studies and to get time for focusing on studying music, and after that start teaching, he used to teach before but he feels that he himself should get theoretical knowledge first, he is interested in jazz music now and wants to explore other genres too.
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