My name is Satveer Bhantoo and I'm currently studying software engineering at the University of Mauritius. I'm live at Camp-Ithier, Flacq and I studied at Camp de Masque State College at secondary level.
My passion is music since my childhood times. At the age of 12, I started to start learning music from a teacher who taught me the basics of guitar for around 1 year. After lots of patience, I was able to play simple four chord songs and play simple guitar solos. However after a little while playing Indian music, I started to get bored because I found Indian (bollywood) music to be very simple and not very challenging. I was already listening to Metal and Rock music before I actually started to be interested in learning how to play them. If I'm not mistaken, the very first rock/metal band I listened to was Linkin Park (at that time it was a rock band). The complexity, at that time, amazed me and it was a challenge for me to start learning to master this new type of music. Unfortunately, I did not have the right guitar to play the genre I wanted to; hence, I asked my parents to buy a new guitar for me. It was not that easy though; I was promised the guitar under the condition that I get good grades for my SC (School Certificate) exams. Meanwhile, in parallel of studying hard to achieve my promised reward, i crafted my acoustic guitar into an electric one using pickups and a computer software. I must say, it turned out pretty well. Hence in 2010, I started to finally play some blues and some simple rock songs and even do the popular guitar solo from the song "Hotel California" from the Eagles.
In 2010 I performed the song "Nothing else matters" by Metallica, which is a very famous romantic ballad track by the metal legends. The track was sung by Mr.Chumroo, who was then, my physics teacher who has been a great inspiration to me as well as to many of my friends who are currently studying in UoM as well! He taught us to depend on ourselves at a very early age and to love learning. I tried to apply this to everything that I was learning, whether it is music or academic studies. In fact, we came to know him after him having been our project supervisor for the science competition organised yearly by Rajiv Gandhi Science Center, in which we finished first runner up among various other star colleges. It was an impressive achievement since we were the first group of student to have ever brought this prestigious award to our college.
As promised, I received my guitar in 2011, even before the results came out because my parents and I were confident that I did well in my exams; and I actually did pretty well. From then, I started to learn much more complex songs and face new challenges. I started by trying to play a lot of metal songs from various bands such as Metallica, Bullet for my Valentine, Guns N' Roses, among a lot of other bands.
In 2013, as usual we had our plans of performing for the music day. However this time I wanted to have a single performance on any song. Seeing that there was an Indian song from the movie "Aashiqui 2" that was being on top of Bollywood hit charts, I decided to make a cover of this song, from start to end on my electric guitar. Luckily, one of the teacher (known as Diksh Potter) who was working at my school caught me practicing and recorded a video of me. He uploaded this video on youtube. To my great surprise, this video got very popular and a lot of students in my school started to know me. It gave me a lot of confidence seeing lots of positive response from other people from different places about the music that I play.
You can always have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipgDz6YYS0g
Since my father knew my passion for music, he asked me whether or not I wanted to go to India or do I prefer a new electric guitar. My answer was obviously the second one! In November 2013, we bought my current guitar which is a steve vai (famous guitarist) replica Ibanez guitar. Since then, I have been extensively practicing hard on many new Metal, Rock and Alternative Rock songs. I'm currently learning an practicing much more challenging songs such as those from the bands Avenged Sevenfold, Dream Theater among others.
Apart from being a music passionate, I also like playing and watching football. On a weekly basis, we usually arrange matches against other teams in my locality. My team consists of mostly people from my huge family. I am a huge fan of Arsenal, since I was 7 years old because that time it was the invincible Arsenal; the team that was undefeated 49 matches in a row. I miss those times because Arsenal currently is not at the best that it was more than 10 years ago! But as a die hard fan, I support Arsenal whether they are winning or losing!
That's all for now!
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