Hummingbird (Tamish Pulappadi):

A 15 year old is obsessed with Guns N’ Roses, and spends his days covering Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Slash, Kirk Hammet, and Steve Harris. He has been inducted into the Brotherhood of the Guitar, an effort initiated by famed photographer Robert Knight (one of the first professionals of his kind to photograph Hendrix) to identify young talent across the globe. He is also brand ambassador of Ernie Ball Music Man.

At 15.

This Begaluru wunderkind has a Facebook page is strewn with expertly crafted covers, and he has only recently ventured into fermenting original creations. The first of them is Hummingbird, a guitar-god paratrooper that is a delicious slop of Joe Sat-Steve Vai topped with Mamsteem bacon bits. While technical precision is obvious and in excess, the beginnings of his powerful, youthful sentiment also seep through.

The music is exuberant, bursting with possibility. The musician is joyful, bristling with the splendour of his own ability. He is reverent, and one can hope, on the verge of becoming wildly experimental. He moves from note to chord to arpeggio with such delight that you cannot resist becoming delighted yourself. This one is a

happymaker, and spreads some awe along the way.