Maxie Miranda is a professional guitarist based out of the capital city of Goa, Panaji. Having made his debut in the international dance and music scene, Jose Maximiano De Miranda is now all set to rock Goa with Latin dances like salsa, Argentine tango, bachata, merengue, forro, and singing and playing the guitar. Fondly known as Maxie in his music circle, he has extensively travelled and performed at global music and dance hotspots like Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, and London. Besides travelling in South America, Maxie has performed at several summer festivals in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. One of Maxie's highlights in his music career has been the performance with the legendary George Harrison of The Beatles, which made front page headlines in Goa in 1991. Besides, Maxie has also taught dance as team-building courses at London School of Economics, among several other institutions of international repute. Now in Goa, Maxie is sharing his vast skills in music and dance with the local teaching and student fraternity. He conducts team-building courses for the music and dance teaching staff and workshops, besides teaching budding music and dance students. In Goa, Maxie has performed LIVE at venues including the Ravindra Bhavan in Margao and Kala Academy in Panjim. Maxie was on the panel of Jury for Kingfisher’s Voice of Goa 2012 (Konkani and English category), Vem Cantar, Goa 2011 (Portuguese singing competition), and all Goa State school level cultural talent search competition organised by the Directorate of Arts and Culture, Goa, held on 12-12-2012. He has taught guitar at the Kala Academy, Panjim, from 1986 to 1994. Maxie has performed at most five-star resorts in Goa since 1985. He played the double bass with the Goa Symphony and State Orchestra, BP Chamber, and Bombay Chamber Orchestras. He has also sung with the Goa Philharmonic Choir and recently collaborated with the London-based choir called The Pangea Chorus.
Within Ceres is a six-piece LIVE band based out of the party capital of India, Goa. The band specializes in progressive and hard rock numbers and features an aggressive instrumental sequence backed up by powerful vocals. Comprising of some of the most talented and promising musicians from several bands in Goa, they have participated in All India music festival competition called Sea Rock (by BITS Pilani). Their influences are Periphery, Skyharbor, etc. They have created and maintained a reputation with their amazing performances at various events and competitions in Goa, being the only Goan band to make it to the third and final round at Sea Rock, and acquiring the second place at the Battle of Bands. Band Members: Odin De Sa – Guitars Kadesh DSouza – Guitars Arnold Carvalho – Vocals David Rebello – Drums Naizian Fernandes – Keyboards John Gomes – Grinder
The Big City Band is a LIVE band based out of Goa, India. It is one of India's most celebrated dance bands. Entertaining the industry for more than 30 years, the six-piece band remains on the cutting edge of musical performance and expertise. Their genres range from oldies and disco to RnB, 80's, modern dance hits, Indian pop, etc. Big City has performed at hundreds of corporate events, weddings, and theme nights. Band Members: Iggy Lucio Herschel Myron Stavro
Kixmet is a unique four-piece metal band based out a city known to be a perfect holiday destinations in India, Goa. The band believes that their metal is as it is meant to be – heart, gut and soul. The band has a repertoire of an all-original setlist and since their inception, the band has made a huge name for themselves in the local scene. The band is influenced by genres and musical backgrounds like retro pop, Indian folk beats, Bollywood background music of the 80's, Indian and western classical music. Band Members: Vj aka XXX: Guitar/Flute/Music/Lyrics Lenin: Bass/Lead Vocals Leo: Drums Bryson: Electric Violin/percussion/Vox
Kixmet is a unique four-piece metal band based out a city known to be a perfect holiday destinations in India, Goa. The band believes that their metal is as it is meant to be – heart, gut and soul. The band has a repertoire of an all-original setlist and since their inception, the band has made a huge name for themselves in the local scene. The band is influenced by genres and musical backgrounds like retro pop, Indian folk beats, Bollywood background music of the 80's, Indian and western classical music. Band Members: Vj aka XXX: Guitar/Flute/Music/Lyrics Lenin: Bass/Lead Vocals Leo: Drums Bryson: Electric Violin/percussion/Vox
D and T is a professional LIVE duo based out of the party capital of India, Goa. The band was formed by Denzil, the charismatic singer, and Trisca, a versatile playback singer with Hindustani classical training. Their genres range from Indie pop, retro, RnB, Western pop, funk, jazz to Bollywood, and swing with a stellar stage presence and an infectious energy that can rock any event or party. The duo has performed with session musicians at venues like The Mariott (Qatar), Holiday Inn (Muscat), Zuri, The Sheraton (Bahrain), The Intercontinental (Kenya), The Taj Exotica, and the Heritage Club.
Vipin is one of the most versatile and experienced artists in the capital, who has done all kinds of shows from cafes and pubs to big, private events. He has an experience of seven years as a percussionist. He does jugalbandi with Bollywood music, Sufi music, house, and EDM music. Recently, he played with big names like: DJ Aqeel DJ Shadow (Dubai) Played at: Moonshine Cafe Zai 1Boulevard Zerzura Smokies F Bar Blues Showshaa ...and many more.
Ralfin Stephen is a professional pianist/keyboardist based out of Kochi, Kerala. Born in Switzerland, Ralfin was just six year old when he got glued to his toy piano. Later, when he was 12, he started to learn the tabla. But, he realized that the tabla was not his cup of tea and took proper keyboard lessons when he was 14. Ralfin started his professional music career when he was 21 and, at the same time, joined with musicians like Jerry Amal Dev, Alphonse, Biji Pal, Kudamaloor Janrdhanan, etc. Deciding to be a full-time musician, he gave up his IT job and joined the Thrissur Chetana Academy under Fr Thomas Chakalamattathu. After passing 8th Grade from London Trinity College, he started to work on many projects like unplugged shows, LIVE piano concerts, television shows, and played for many bands as well. Stephen has been featured on almost every leading show like Kappa TV Music Mojo, Amritha TV Duet, Atmeeya Yathra, Shalom, etc. to name a few. At present, he is associated with bands, Acoustika and Amrutham Gamaya, and conducts his own shows with his band called Ralfin Stephen Band.
Subrata De is a professional sitar player based out of the capital city of West Bengal, Kolkata. One of the most promising names today, Subrata hails from the Bishnupur Gharana. He has not only earned his reputation as a performer but also as a cultural ambassador of India, propagating Indian culture in its purest form all over the world. Subrata also works for cultural exchanges between India and foreign countries through lecture demonstrations, concerts, and facilitating exchange programmes. He is also looked up to by young artists for getting suitable opportunities and mentoring to showcase their talents at appropriate stages. Performances: Yuva Mohatsav 1985 and 1986 in Jamshedpur for Yuva Festival AIR Jamshedpur 1989-94 Awards and Achievements: Recipient of the National Scholarship, 1996 Graded Artist of All India Radio Delhi since 1996 Selected participant for Yuva Mohatsav in 1998 for Delhi Government On the panel of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Zonal Cultural Centre (Department Of Culture) Sahitya Kala Parishad ABSS Pune
Rishabh Bassman is a professional guitarist and keyboardist based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. He plays the rhythm guitar and the bass guitar. He got exposed to the Indian classical music from an early age, which helped him play the odd-time signatures with ease. Rishabh plays with various bands and ghazal groups nationwide and worldwide. He also works for Sony TV, Zee News, and Doordarshan. Rishabh is the kind of a person who makes his own standards and gives challenges to himself. He gets inspired from the sounds we happen to hear daily; he believes that everything in this world goes with a certain rhythm.
Rajan Band is a wedding band based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. Established in the year 1973, the band was made with the association of PC Rajan. Rajan Band is one of the most popular wedding bands in Delhi. They provide quality work and the best services to their customers. They specialize in wedding shehnai and traditional wedding band playing various Bollywood songs. All the services offered by them are known in the market for their reliability, promptness and customer satisfaction.
Mrityunjay Sharma is a professional instrumentalist based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. Born in 1996, Mrityunjay is a famous composer, singer-songwriter, musician and philanthropist. He began his musical journey at the age of three. He is accredited by Guinness World Records as world’s #1 pianist in the longest piano recital for continuous 127 hours. His school, Junior Model School, had no music classes. Hence, he started playing the harmonium during the school assembly. Later, Mrityunjay assisted his father in cultural programmes, playing the harmonium. Mrityunjay did not have the keyboard, so his father used to arrange rented keyboards for him so that he could explore the instrument of different company brands. In 2006, he was admitted in Sangeet Bhushan, a scholarship-funded, four-year diploma course to provide the core knowledge of Indian classical instrumental music, from Rukmini Devi Lalit Kala Kendra, Pitampura, Delhi. When Mrityunjay was 12 years old, he made debut as a music director in the Ramleela act function in 2008 and continued to give background score every year till 2012. He was excellent in academics and was the topper in 12th standard. Sharma is completing graduation in 2016 from Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi with a degree in commerce. He had wanted to play the harmonium for an uninterrupted stretch of time ever since he was in third grade when he heard about a college student playing the guitar for 66 hours. The dream resurfaced by a chance mention of the Limca Book of Records in 2014. Then he called Sudhanshu Bahuguna, begging him to guide his training sessions for the record attempt. Bahuguna realised the boy was ready and agreed to accept him. That was in March 2014. A year later, Sharma successfully tried for the Limca Records in March 2015 by playing the piano for continuous 52 hours and surpassed the previous national record of 50 hours. His teachers at SRCC chipped in by allowing him to skip classes to practice for Guinness World Records and Limca Book of Records attempts; a 1964 batch alumni, Billy Gupta, gifted him the synthesizer on which he would go on to make both his record attempts; and a classmate gave him a precious Rs 200 to cover the travelling expenses from his college to Bahuguna's Swarnimm Sangeet Mahavidyalaya. Mrityunjay Sharma is a BHEL - Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access scholar. The scholarship covers his expenses of studies, while also providing maintenance allowances and nurturing for his dreams. Being obliged for society, he composed and developed music therapy for autistic children and mass people in March 2016. He has performed across the nation for different organisations, clubs, and collaboration programmes at SRCC including Indo-Korea, Indo-UK, Indo-US, and CII National Conference. Among his favourite performance venues are India Habitat Centre, SRCC auditorium, Hotel Taj, etc. He is working on to bring the fastest pianist title record to India by surpassing the existing world record of most piano-key hits in one minute, which is currently held by Hungarian pianist, Bence Peter. Achievements: Academics Award for scoring top marks in 9th standard, SV, 2009 Yuva Talent Hunt Winner Award, RPVV, 2012 Academics Award for scoring top marks in 12th standard, RPVV, 2013 Special Prize Award for creating national record in Limca Book of Records, SRCC, 2015 Limca Book of Records holder, 2015 Principal Medal Award for Extraordinary achievement, SRCC, 2016 Certificate of Recognition for performance at world’s Longest Piano recital, SRCC, 2016 Guinness World Record holder, 2016
Lakshay Mohan and Aayush Mohan is a professional instrumentalist duo based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. At Ravi Shankar Centre in 2012, after listening to Aayush and Lakshay, Late Pt Ravi Shankar decided to launch them for their first US tour under his foundation. The tour was materialised in 2015, in which, the two performed at several prestigious music festivals. Lakshay and Aayush happened to be the first Indians to be invited to perform at The Grammy Museum, LA for the opening of the exhibition , 'Ravi Shankar: A Life in Music'. They have learnt the Maihar playing style by Maihar Gharana musicians , Padmabhushan Smt Sharan Rani and Pt Uma Shankar Mishra. They have also learnt under Sarod maestro, Pt Tejendra Narayan Majumdar. He has won the hearts of audiences at many classical music festivals and venues worldwide, like: The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles Learn Quest Music Conference, Boston India Fine Arts Academy, San Diego Thyagaraja Festival, Cleveland The Abbey Theatre, Columbus Performances in India: Delhi Classical Music Festival Saptak Festival, Ahmedabad Gunidas Sangeet Sammelan, Mumbai RIMPA Festival at Ravi Shankar Centre, New Delhi Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata Taj Mahotsav, Agra All Bengal Music Conference, Kolkata Ganga Mahotsav, Varanasi Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal Recent albums: The Majestic Court by Times Music Echoes From the Yellow Land by Mystica Music Recently, the two collaborated with Grammy-award winner, Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, for the project , The String Trinity. They were also invited by Ramakrishna Mission of Jaipur, Delhi, Bangalore and Arunachal Pradesh to play at the closing ceremony of Swami Vivekananda's 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations.
Jagdish Prakash and Sons is a professional LIVE band based out of the capital of India, New Delhi. The band has been providing services from the time when the entertainment sources were limited. They have the finest musicians in Delhi who give their best every time they play. The Jagdish Prakash and Sons has created dynamic, award winning performances for Bollywood, minister’s homely events, IPS, IAS, industrialists, IFS officers, Supreme Court Judges, diplomats, high court judges, lawyers, international level players, other media events and many more. They have all kinds of music to deliver related to a wedding, pre-wedding, post wedding, birthday party, wedding anniversary, cultural activity, religious affair, festivals, inaugurations, welcome occasions, receptions, sagan ceremony, cocktails, corporate parties, national events, and many more.
Azeem Ahmed is a professional sitar player based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. He is the brains behind the Sitar Project. Conceived in 2012, the Sitar Project is a vision of showcasing experimental classical and folk music on an international stage and not limited to a mall elite. The idea is to introduce, explore, and enhance the experience of Indian sitar across different music cultures around the world. The Sitar Project is a world music project with LIVE and recorded performances across India and abroad led by Ustaad Shakir Khan and Maestro Azeem Ahmed Alvi based in Mumbai and Delhi respectively.
Adhir Ghosh is a Delhi-based session guitarist. He plays full-time with two groups – Five8 (Funk/Rock) and Kitchensink (Jazz/R&B) and has likewise performed with Artists Unlimited, The Yellow Brick Project, Classic Collective, MAP, Vasundhara Vee and others, which has picked up him the notoriety of being one of the first-call guitarists in the city. He is likewise a music instructor and educates both secretly and at Global Music Institute, one of the chief music establishments in Delhi.
Volcano Dance Company is a professional dance troupe based out of Kochi, Kerala. It is one of the most famous dance companies specialising in Bollywood, salsa, contemporary, classical and western dance forms. Performing and choreographing shows and events all over the country and abroad, the troupe prides itself with a great number of students and professional dancers that have appeared in music videos, films, reality shows, award nights, and high-profile productions. At Volcano Dance Company, the troupe takes full joy and pride in embracing people from all cultural backgrounds and educating them the nuances of dance. As a result, Volcano Dance Company is today an institution of highly respected for its contribution towards cultural education, arts, social contribution and promotion of Indian and western art and culture. It is a premier in-house solution provider for all dimensions in the media industry. The superlative feedback from the clients regarding the worth of the company’s work stands as a proud testament to the quality provided. Running since 1996, the company is a result of the pioneering efforts of a committed set of individuals who decided to put their invaluable experience and passion to confidentially meet the rising demands of the burgeoning media industry. With the professional and experienced crew, Volcano Dance Company has the confidence and capacity to successfully meet the needs and demands of its client base. Being a rare blend of talented and professional youngsters who are passionate about the media industry and wants to create new dimensions to it, the company’s aim is to create long term relationship with its clients and provide a 100% customer satisfaction that would lead to continued business success.
Chandra Bhanu is a Delhi based singer who has been performing at the stage for more than 8 years. Completed his graduation in B.A. music. He started singing at a very young age, started performing at Delhi cafes, corporate events. His fluency in Language is Hindi. Chandra has been inspired by the famous singer & also worked with the likes of Suresh Wadkar, Sonu Nigam, & also performed in more than 900 shows. He was the 2 runner up in a national singing competition. Along with Chandra, there are 3 members in the group.
When Chai Met Toast is a three-piece rock acoustic band. An immensely talented bunch of musicians their passion and love for music is unquestionable. Its objective is to transcend positivity and good vibes to the people from its music. The band is majorly influenced by overseas bands and artists like- Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers, Stevie Wonder, Florence + The Machine, Alabama Shakes, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Muse, BB King, and Daughter. One can always find an essence of these artists and bands in their work. The band is comprised of the following: Ashwin Gopakumar - Vocals/Guitar Achyuth Jaigopal - Guitar/Banjo Palee Francis - Keyboard Sailesh G Pai - Drums
