I am a passionate, self-taught young musician. I started playing many different instruments, such as drums, and mridangam(Indian drum). My dad, who has been playing guitar for 14 years now, has bought at least 20 guitars that are in my home. In second grade, I started playing drums, and I really wanted to be in a band with my friends at school but it turned out my best friend plays drums too so I had to learn a new instrument. So in 4th grade I picked up the ukulele. My mom showed me a few basic chords and soon I fell in love with it. I mastered the ukulele basically because I practiced 2 hours a day. And then I took one of the guitars and tried playing that because I wanted to, and I found out that guitar chords sound similar to the ukulele chords so I realized I’ve got guitar nature. I didn’t get a teacher(I don’t know why) so I just learned by tabs and YouTube tutorials. So that’s how I love music.
Watch Vedanth Sankar Bhat perform Sweet Sweet Canyon by Shiho Fujii, Atsuko Asahi, Ryo Nagamatsu & Yasuaki Iwata on the guitar for the 2025 Winter Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.