He was the first South Indian to participate on television in Zee Saregamapa.

He spent his childhood in Maharashtra (Wardha, Sholapur) and Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal).

He attended school in Kendriya Vidyalaya until 1991, and then until 1997 in Hyderabad, up to 12th standard.

He developed an interest in music very early in his life, while listening to his elder brother Sirish.

Because of his father's railway job, he was brought up in Maharashtra (Wardha, Sholapur) and stayed in Bhopal from 1981 to 1991.He moved to Hyderabad in 1991, and joined the tutelage of Dr. Shobha Raju in 1994.