Here I would like to introduce myself. My name is Manjunath. Usually I refer myself as Manju. I was born and brought up in Bangalore and presently put up in Hyderabad. I am working as a Software Engineer in a company called Synergy Computer Solutions (Hyderabad). I have Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc) in Science (Electronics) and Masters in Computer Application (MCA). I will not write anything about computer or programming here.
I remember music was like magic to me when I was a kid. My ignorance was up to the extent that I was not able to analyze whether notes in a piece of music are going up or down. First twelve to thirteen years of my life, I didn’t even had faintest idea that Goddess of Music will put her holy hand on me. My passion towards music started during my early or mid teen. It was the time when all my friends were falling in love with their girlfriends, I was falling in love with music. I picked up keyboard after trying many other instruments (I also made a futile attempt of learning Carnatic music, and still trying). My family is not a musical background one. Hence it’s obvious that it took some time for them to believe in my passion. Music was my choice and my companion since more than a decade.
I learnt western keyboard under Terrence Pereira for around 3 years. After that it was quite a self learning. My interest and maturity in music grew when I got Yamaha PSR 640 arranger Keyboard (sometime in mid 2000). It’s a 16 track arranger workstation. Here my passion graduated towards arranging music. Putting different instruments in different tracks one by one and when you finally play them all together at once it sounds as a full band or orchestra. You can arrange (Some times called as sequencing also) full Tchaikovsky’s Piano concerto No 1 in one keyboard. That’s where technology makes difference. This also made me to start work on my full fledged songs. Over the years I have made quite good musician friends, got advanced level certificates from Trinity College of Music for playing Keyboards. Worked as part time music teacher during my Masters in one of the very good music school in Bangalore (SadhanaMusicSchool) and also I was lead Keys player in my college band for a year and toured around the state.
Now I am working towards computer music production and recording techniques. I have Yamaha PSR 3000 also along with Yamaha PSR 640 and few desktop music production softwares. There is no advantage of having both Yamaha Keyboards. PSR 640 is in Bangalore and PSR 3000 is in Hyderabad with me.
Now along with Software Engineering I am doing music for few short films, slides and Jingles. I do music and publish them in the internet. I was also involved in Ring tone production for a company called Harmonix in Bombay. In 2007 My Music was also featured in top 100 in the Spirit Within New Age Radio Music Special online radio.
My other interests are visiting new places, serene places, breathing new cultures, visiting historical places, reading Biographies and History (Sorry I am a bit nostalgic person) and lots of food.