Poco Loco

Pradyumna Singh Manot (Paddy) - Piano Sanjeeta Bhattacharya - Voice Kunal No - Drums Sergio Dinarte - Bass Paddy started playing the piano at the age of six. Since that time he has been extensively studying Western Classical, Jazz, Latin, Latin jazz and North Indian classical music. He has played at the Java Jazz Festival where he received accolades from great names of jazz including George Benson, Roy Hargrove and Joey de Franscesco. He has performed with many artists such as jazz singer Claire Michaud, trombonist Alistair Kay (Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc.), star bassist Steve Zerlin, Alex Stuart and Indian guitar legend Sumith Ramachandran, among others. He has also been a regular artist of the Congo Square Jazz Festival for past 8 years. Sanjeeta recently graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Boston. She began her musical journey with Hindustani Classical music for 8 years,simultaneously exploring the world of jazz, RnB, soul, bossa nova and flamenco. She has performed at various venues including Boston Symphony Hall alongside A.R. Rahman, Berklee Performance Center, Un Lago de Conciertos, Magnetic Fields Festival and Bengaluru Ganesh Utsava. Kunal has been playing drums for fifteen years of which eight have been as a session musician in India. He recently graduated from The Collective School of Music, New York in 2015 with a diploma in music. Sergio Dinarte hails from El Salvador. He has studied classical guitar with Candido Morales, the direct disciple of the legend Agustin Barrios Mangore, and classical music at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. He's been a freelance musician playing guitar and bass for over twenty years. He also plays with the popular ska band, The Ska Vengers.