Mumbai based ace guitarist and pedagogue Nevin Kurakose began playing guitar, keyboards and was passionate about music from a very small age and even used to sing. Belonging to a music family Nevin used to see his mom play the keyboard (Nevin’s mother is a renowned and prolific keyboard teacher in Mumbai) and then slowly gathered an interest in making music.

He still remembers his first lesson on the keyboard taught by his mom when he was very young and the C major scale learnt when he was in school. Since he was never a good student in school, he  had to spent a lot of time reading his school text books to gain those golden 35/100 marks to pass so he could never really spend much time for music and practice.

Then came college and the same story continued, but then he started gaining much more interest in guitar and he had seen some of the musicians like Kurt Cobain, Steve Vai, Michael Angelo Batio, and his great influence would always be Steve Vai and Michael Angelo and since then he has been trying to master the Guitar to their level.

The rock bands that he follows are Nirvana, Doors, Bullets for my Valentine, Cradle of Filth, Megadeath, Children of Bodem, System of a Down, Eagles, Led Zappelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, ZZ Top.

He used to listen to all these bands and always had dreams of being a musician but never got the opportunity in college instead his other interest flourished; football. He was selected to play for his college at the university level and so music took a back seat again.

But after his college he worked in a call centre and then in shipping company but never felt the satisfaction in what he was doing because they were some ways just to earn money not at all something of his interest. All this while he somehow used to practice on the guitar and it has been very much a part of from the age of 12.

He had been in search for a proper Guitar class for a very long time where he could learn A to Z about the guitar but could not find a proper teacher and since his mom was a professional in keyboard she was very particular about him learning guitars the proper way. He learnt the staff notations from his mother & wanted to learn a lot more with regards to the guitar leads and go further and deeper in the guitar and his mom herself recommended Guitar Hall to him after learning Guitar Hall’s track record in Mumbai. What followed next was an intensive training period for Nevin at Guitar Hall which changed his life and before long he was appointed the Guitar Hall teacher which he rightfully deserved. ”For me the environment also very important and I could get all that and more in Guitar Hall.“ Nevin says.