multi faceted raghav sachar effortless wears many hats at a time hes a musician composer a vocalist who can sing in both male and female vocals can play 33 different musical instruments and counting and even owns a pet who sings and no its not a bird but a dog raghav shares his musical experiences and talks about his favourite companion tenor his dog excerpts from an interviewhow did music happen to you i started playing music as a sport i used to see my father play the harmonica and asked him to teach me to play it so he bought me one on my birthday and thats how it all started i started playing my first instrument harmonica when i was four years old since then i struck a deal with my father that he would have to gift me a new musical instrument on every birthday he religiously did that till i was 18 and then i started earning for myself and kept buying all sorts of different instruments that i liked i travelled all over the world and bought and learnt one instrument that i liked from different countries initially my father wasnt sure if i would still be into music but then my parents saw that i was really serious about my music and they further encouraged meso you had quite a musical childhood then my father retired as the director general of police im the youngest and the most pampered member of my parents my parents are are the reasons why im able to do what im doing no body in my family has been into music but my parents used to be fond of music my father used to play the harmonica at parties and my mother used to play the sitar so i think thats where i inherited my musical genesyou play 33 musical instruments which is your favourite i dont have any favourites as such i enjoy playing the acoustic guitar grand piano recorder drums tenor recorder trumpet tenor saxophone recently i picked up the trumpet which has been used in my upcoming filmyour website says music is in my dna music for me is life i eat drink sleep music i find music in everything be it the rain a hammer on a nail the sound of wind everything has music i compose i also sing in male and even female vocals i record i engineer and compose music as well and even write lyrics ive put myself into all the criteria that a musician is involved inwhile recreating old songs what do you keep in mind i love recreating old numbers i believe older melodies dont die old sounds can add a lot more to a song so recreating old sounds is like a fresh breath to the song my recent recreation is rd burmans gulabi aankhen i am an rd fan and i love performing his numbers i love his style and hes an inspirationapart from music what are