Born in Kerala, South India and brought up in Mumbai, Abhay has grown up with music in his family and his blood. He took a fancy to the Guitar around his early teens and has never looked back since. Starting with Western genres such as Jazz and Blues and being influenced by artists like John McLaughlin, Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass and B.B.King he developed a keen sense of hearing and playing moulding his own unique expression and texture on the guitar and quickly building a reputation for himself within the music circles in Mumbai and around. A couple of years after exploring the guitar through jazz and blues, Abhay felt the need to explore an as yet rarely visited genre on the guitar, South Indian Classical music (also known as Carnatic Classical). Being an extremely difficult art form to explore on a predominantly Western instrument not designed for the rigours of Indian Classical, Abhay took it upon himself to challenge established norms and develop a new, unique and extremely expressive and vigorous style of Carnatic Music on the guitar. It was around this time that Abhay met his Guru and Mentor, the legendary Mandolin Maestro Vidwan U Srinivas under whose guidance Abhay cemented his new style of playing and developed it into a polished and fine art form unique to the electric guitar. He is now currently the only Carnatic Guitar Artiste in the world performing and teaching the U Srinivas Bani (style) of playing on the electric guitar.