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For Maya Neelakantan, who’s being dubbed the ‘rock goddess’ after her America’s Obtained Expertise (season 19) audition clip went viral, fame is incidental. “I had by no means anticipated all this,” she gushes.
The younger guitarist, who hails from Chennai (Tamil Nadu), feels the fusion of Indian classical music with rock and metallic is “thrilling and hasn’t been explored a lot”. “These genres are so underrated collectively! I wish to create my very own music, which is extra just like the AGT efficiency,” she shares.
The 11-year-old went on the fact present stage wearing an embellished lehenga-kurta set, full with conventional jewelry, and performed Papa Roach’s Final Resort infused with notes of classical Carnatic music, creating an audio-visual juxtaposition. “I used to be representing all of India and needed to make a spot for conventional music, too. My amma helped me organise the outfit, with the earrings and all the things,” says the varsity scholar.
Neelakantan, who fell in love with Carnatic music on the age of two, learns it on-line with Prasanna Ramaswamy (Guitar Prasanna).
Talking about enterprise tycoon Anand Mahindra sharing her video, she stated, “I didn’t anticipate that in any respect. It was very good of him to do that… I’ve acquired love and help from guitar lengends, a lot of whom are shut associates. However for him to find me on this means was very surprising, and acquired me love from the complete nation!”
Assist Issues
Counting her blessings, Neelakantan says that she’s grateful for all of the help she will get from her dad and mom (Indian dad and Australian mum) and others: “I’ve acquired a lot help from legends like Gary Holt (American guitarist), who flew all the best way from Sacramento to Los Angeles to look at my AGT audition.” She enjoys good following on the web with 15.8K followers on YouTube and 49.2K on Instagram.
