Nikhil P. Yerawadekar

Nikhil P. descended from the heavens in 1984. His first albums were Raffi's Everything Grows and Michael Jackson's Thriller, which he listened to while spinning around in a cardboard box at the age of three. He began formal piano lessons at the age of four, but switched to guitar when he was eight because he did not enjoy the stifling conditions of the classical Western approach to learning music. His connection to music of all kinds became increasingly obsessive, and in the spring of 2005, he decided to form a group of his own comprised of fellow New York University students. The band is called the Nikhil P. Yerawadekar Quintet and they played original improvisatory instrumental music that some might call jazz, derived from all the wonderful sounds that this world has presented to young Nikhil. On April 20th, 2006, the band released their first and only album Beef Music Volume One: Freedom To The Dogs and played many shows all over New York City, in places like the Knitting Factory Old Office, Zebulon and the Bowery Poetry Club. On January 28th, 2007, the group performed for the last time at Bowery. The decision to end the group was a result of Nikhil's growing interest in writing and performing less improvisatory, vocal-oriented soul music and two years later, all the members of the Nikhil P. Yerawadekar Quintet are out of school and getting busy all over the music scene in New York. Nikhil is currently playing guitar, bass and keyboards in about five thousand different musical projects ranging from Afrobeat to bluegrass to jazz to reggae, in between, outside, left, right, etc. He has performed all over NYC, as well as in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia and a bunch of other places. Yes, the future is bright for Nikhil P... To the top!