When you were seven years old, your sister drew an octave of a piano on a piece of paper. For for a long time, that piece of paper piano was my piano. My parents always dreamt of being able to have a piano in our home but we never did. And now i finally got one here fom my own home. I've taken a little break now, you know, for the pandamic and a but for a while i've been taking lessons again. How good a player are you? I would say, i'm not very good. Im maybe a lower intermediate.
From practicing on his first piano—drawn on a piece of paper—to recording albums and launching the podcast and Netflix show “Song Exploder,” Hrishikesh Hirway has lived a marvelous life of music.