MMP chats with viral online 11 year old guitarist Aanika Pai from the NAMM Show in Anaheim California

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Aanika Pai has become an extremely viral (popular) online guitarist on several social media platforms! Her soulful and amazing guitar-playing is extremely impressive considering that she is only 11 years old. She is in Anaheim California for her first experience playing at and attending the international music convention the NAMM show! #nammshow #namm2025 #guitar Social media: https://www.instagram.com/aanika_pai https://www.youtube.com/@annikapai Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085056336357 PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! We have many more amazing guests coming that you don't want to miss! Music Matters Podcast is hosted by globally published music journalist, Pro musician and Getty Images photographer Darrell Craig Harris! Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris is now on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean and more! Darrell interviews globally known artists, musicians, music journalists, music business insiders, and more on a weekly basis! Follow us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3au9TSi Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7bJF7f5... IHeart Radio https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-mu... Website https://www.MusicMattersPodcast.com contact: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music,
0:09.6	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:20.8	Anika bye, how are you doing today?
0:23.4	I'm doing well, thank you, sir.
0:25.8	Awesome. And then what's your father's name?
0:28.4	His name is Avanash.
0:30.2	Avanash. Hey, Avanash, how are you doing?
0:32.5	Hello, I'm Miss Harris. I'm fine, thank you.
0:35.2	So I found you, as many have, on your social media pages because you have some very popular guitar playing videos.
0:43.3	You're such a great player. You're 11 years old. I think maybe I discovered you when you're even 10 years old. I don't know. It's been a little while now.
0:52.6	And then so you are in Los Angeles or actually Anaheim now because you're going to be coming to the NAM show.
0:59.6	Yes, I am.
1:01.0	So that must be exciting. Is this the first time you've been to the United States?
1:05.6	Yeah, it's my first time to the United States as well as NAM.
1:09.5	Awesome. And what do you guys, I know you're UK, but what do you live in the UK?
1:14.2	We live in Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory.
1:17.7	Ah, okay.
1:19.0	Yeah, most Americans are, we've all heard of Gibraltar, but we're not sure exactly where that is.
1:25.2	So tell me, how did you get started playing guitar? How old were you when you first
1:30.2	started playing? Yeah, so I was eight when I first started and my parents signed me up for
1:34.9	piano lessons and classical guitar. So yeah, I did that for a while. But I mean, I found guitar
1:41.6	so much more like, it was more fun to play. And then after a while, I got I found guitar so much more like it was more fun to play and then after a while I got my electric guitar my first electric guitar and I used this app called musician so I used that for a while and then my dad suggested that we get a tutor for me so yeah I, so my tutor is Mr. Simithra Magandran.
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