Rajhesh Vaidhya - Strings on Fire

Rajhesh Vaidhya is a popular Indian Veena player, music composer, an actor. Rajhesh is a disciple of of the legenday Veena player Chitti Babu and won 2010 Kalaimamani award for his veena playing. His penchant for technology led him to electrically amplify his veena, and restring it with a type of wire usually found in DIY toolkits rather than music shops. The new sonorities opened up avenues in film composition - he has written for AR Rahman. Alongside this he leads Maya, a fusion group, and worked with musicians including Elton John. He teaches at Ravna, his own veena school and brings distinctly modern touches to all he does, recently getting a tattoo of a veena on his arm, and naming his energetic rendition of Raag Kafi as Kafi Espresso.