"Do what you love, love what you do."

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Someone said that to me when I was fresh out of college and, even now, I still take it to heart.  It's like when a young John Lennon was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said "happy". Everyone thought he misunderstood the question.

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Hi! My name is Shreepal or "Shreeps" for short.  My East Indian parents gave me the name although I was born in New Hampshire and then raised outside of Philadelphia.  I have a passion for many things, but singing and making music is one of the earliest that developed.  I was a mild-mannered, quiet kid growing up - much different than who I am today.  Music was something that made me light up!  I used to sing so much my sister would complain. 

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I began playing guitar late in high school and wrote my first song not long after.  It was not good and sounded a bit like throwing wet paper towels at the wall.  As I continued playing though, I developed a love for the songwriting process.  A spark of inspiration would become an obsession.  I'd play or sing a new idea over and over just hoping I could unlock something special to move the writing forward.  And then I'd stew over the right words to sing and whether they had the "right stuff".  I loved doing it, but, unlike many songwriters,  I never considered doing it seriously until after college.

After graduating from Emory University with plans to work in business, I instead enrolled in the Atlanta Institute of Music to study guitar performance.  AIM was a sea change and I was definitely out of my element at first.  Everyone was so #@$@ good!  The depth and breadth of talent was astonishing and then there was me, overwhelmed but falling in love at the same time.  I practiced alot and , I was not long after, I was entirely off the beaten path.  I no longer thought about finance, I thought about how Hendrix shaped our whole culture's relationship with music and whether I could cop all of Clapton's licks off his seminal album with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.  It's not far off to say that the experience shaped my whole adult life.

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Singing and performing still brings me the same joy as when I first started playing seriously.  So much joy in my life (& yours maybe) has come through music and live performance!

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The first music that really captured me was The Beatles & Michael Jackson, partly because my parents kept a small vinyl collection.

From there, I developed a love for songwriters and bands like Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Sting & the Police, Peter Gabriel, John Lennon, Dave Matthews, The Grateful Dead, and R.E.M.  And then I'd try to emulate voices I loved like Sam Cooke, James Taylor, Van Morrison, & Robert Plant.  You might hear some of these influences in my own music, but then I'm also the type to find inspiration anywhere.

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Click the Booking tab above to check my availability.  To see me at a public performance, check out my Schedule.  The last tab under "IP Law" is for my other serious passion - intellectual property law.

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Thanks for your support and thanks for supporting live music! 

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