Biography

Born in Bhopal to a middle-class household, Samar broke his family’s institutional pattern early and had his heart set on music quite stubbornly. Eventually, he found his way to the guitar, and that brought forth a new purpose to his songwriting. Samar quickly emerged as one of the best guitarists from his region, as emphasized by his 440Hz solo stunt that got him through to top 10 of the competition that had over a hundred entries from all over the country. Samar needed a completely exhaustive and original way of writing and presenting music – what he felt was most relevant to the way he had always conceived music and perceived life – but even more than that, he needed to not depend on anyone else for his music anymore to get out of his rut. A few coincidences and accidents like practicing left-hand legato while unintentionally tapping on the computer table near him led him to the world of percussive fingerstyle. What captured his attention about percussive fingerstyle was not the flashy skillshow, but an opportunity to write and perform multi-layered songs organically despite being a solo act. The motivation to train and become worthy of the idea of reinterpretations was the strongest drive he had ever felt. Add to that, the most valuable angle of being able to wrap his overall philosophy about life in his music – Samar had found meaning in reinterpretations, or he calls it, in the “possibilities in impossibilities”.