He has given light music and gazal concerts in the United States and Canada as well as in India. He performed as a singer and accompanist with Sitara Devi and Zakir Hussain and as a harmonium player with Lakshmi Shankar, Girija Devi, Jasraj, Rajan and Sajan Mishra, and many others. He has been teaching Hindustani music in Southern California since 1980 and is an adjunct faculty member teaching north Indian music at Cal Poly, Pomona. He is originally from Karnataka, India, and has lived in the US since 1972. He has a Ph.D in microbiology and teaches microbiology and biology at Riverside Community College.