My Love for Music

Music, to me, has always felt like home.

When life gets chaotic, when deadlines pile up, emotions get tangled, or my thoughts feel too loud, I turn to music. There’s something incredibly grounding about it. It’s like pressing pause on the world and letting someone else’s words hold your heart for a while.

I’ve loved music for as long as I can remember. My earliest memories are of singing beside my mother - she has a beautiful voice and learned to play the harmonium when she was young. She would take me along to her music classes, and that planted the first seeds of my love for sound. Eventually, I enrolled in Hindustani classical vocal classes myself and even cleared my first-level exam. I still remember practicing those alankars and raags, slowly learning to control my breath, pitch, and confidence.

In school, I sang at every opportunity I could. I was a part of the school choir and took part in “Voice of Viva”, an inter-school singing competition too. As I grew older, music faded to the background for a while - buried under academics, career goals, and just... life. But the love never went away. It was waiting patiently for me to find my way back.

These days, I love everything about music: discovering new artists, decoding lyrics, finding meaning in a song that somehow feels like it was written for me. I can memorize lyrics faster than I can remember what I had for lunch. (And yes, I can identify any Taylor Swift song within two seconds. Challenge accepted.) Her songwriting, especially, has given me the words for emotions I didn’t even know I had. Through her music, I’ve felt deeply understood. And that gave me the courage to start sharing my own voice with the world.

And then there’s the magic of live music - something I absolutely live for. I’ve been lucky enough to attend concerts by Vishal-Shekhar, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Darshan Raval, Ed Sheeran, Zedd, Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Shawn Mendes, Louis Tomlinson and Usha Uthup - each one a completely unforgettable experience. There’s something indescribable about singing along with thousands of people to a song you love, all hearts beating in rhythm. Those moments have stayed with me long after the lights went down.