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Baiju Dharmajan is a multi-award winning and our country's pioneering Carnatic Guitarist, winner of the Best Guitarist award thrice at the Jack Daniel's Rock Awards.

Enjoying a large cult following among all guitarists in the country, Baiju's recognized as one of the creators of the sound of Indian rock.guitar. Apart from playing live with the Syndicate, Baiju also composes music for Bollywood and Malayalam film industry.

Baiju Dharmajan is a guitarist, producer, composer and music director from India widely recognized for his unique ability of seamlessly fusing overtones of Carnatic music with rock.

Baiju Dharmajan can easily be described as one of India’s guitar gods. On the verge of forming a new band, he says music for him is an emotional self-expression

It is an unlikely path to a ‘music’ studio. The road to it , in the interiors of Vypeen, narrows before disappearing altogether into the interiors of Vypeen. The stillness after the rain is interspersed with the sound of water dripping and strains of music emanating from a decrepit, old house. “This is where we are practice,” says Baiju Dharmajan, “I am a boy from ‘Vypeenkara’, this is the place that has nourished my music. You can take me out of Vypeen but not Vypeen out of me. I will keep coming back.”

One of India’s leading guitarists, in the league of guitarists such as Sanjeev Thomas, John Thomas (Karnatriix), R. Prasanna and Bruce Lee Mani (of a Thermal and a Quarter), Baiju is on the verge of forming a band. Solo projects and shows have kept him busy for the last couple of years since he left Motherjane, one of Kerala’s popular rock acts. It is time for the ‘next phase’, he says.

The 13 years with Motherjane, he acknowledges, were good while they lasted. “But then comes a time when one has to move on. I became Baiju Dharmajan a year after I left the band. I did things on my own and found my way around things. I wouldn’t have done this within the comfort zone of a band.” He is much more relaxed and smiles a lot as he talks. The first year, after quitting Motherjane, was extremely tough, he admits, financially and artistically. But with a series of collaborations and the release of his solo album, The Crossover, Baiju consolidated his position as one of the country’s best.