Career
He has been a performing vocal artist since 1994, when he gave his 1st performance at the age of 9 under the auspices of the Percussive Arts Centre, in Bangalore. A second successful concert tour of America and Canada took place in 2008. Abhishek was also attracted by the intricacies of rhythm right from an early age.
With a rare combination of Sri.Palghat Raghu as his mridangam guru, and Sri.
Harishankar as his kanjira guru, Abhishek has had the best of learning in every way. He has had the privilege of playing Kanjira with mridangam maestros Palghat Raghu, Doctor.T.K.Murthy, Umayalpuram Sivaraman and the like.
Abhishek has created a new genre in the field of vocal music, combining virtuosity, aesthetics and intellect in equal proportion. His music has been called "food for the intellect, mind, heart and soul." The specialty and uniqueness of his style emerges from his efforts taken to not mime any pre-existing baani.
Since he largely comes from a greatly musical family, he could very well be on his way to creating a new baani, something that could have a big impact in the Indian music world.
Abhishek has released several albums. His recent albums Makarandam and Ecstacy in Annamayya for Home Records have been sensationally well received. He has also composed many Thillanas that have been raved about by frontline artistes.