George Kuruvilla


There are a few times in my life when I've seen or heard something and just thought to myself, gosh, why am I not seeing this on TV or a bigger screen?

It is both humbling and uplifting at the same time.

As all of us do, I've had the privilege of being blown away a few times ...

Kumar Kannan - friend and workplace cricket-teammate ... I've seem him make near double hundreds in 25 over games (which is just a bizzare feat) at any level...

Abhishek Narayan - friend and workplace music band mate ....superb guitarist.... Abhishek simply breathes the ability to perform and creates phonic beauty out of steel and amplifier material. An absolute natural, with and without the guitar. There have been times when there have been awkward moments on stage, when Abhishek has just found the right time to start a GnR or Pink Floyd solo and the crowd is simply eating out of his hands after that.

Ganesh Pitchiah - again, a friend and workplace cricket-teammate .... I cannot remember the number of times when he has just taken my breath away with an unbelievable stumping or a brilliant catch. There have been times when even the opposition dressing rooms actually gasp at his brilliance, followed by a stunned applause and an incredulous shake of their heads.

All these people are simply phenomenally gifted and fortunately for them, their passions align with their gifts. For various reasons, they are not on TV ... but thats OK.


Here's another... George Kuruvilla. I first heard George on Muziboo and subsequently learnt that George and Abhishek were on a band together during their Engineering days.


After a couple of George covers I was simply blown away by what I heard and my first question to him was "Are you a professional musician?" I was stunned when he replied in the negative. George's vocals are a sublime mix of great range, controlled power and absolute pitch perfect delivery. He sings in English, Hindi and Malayam and like all really gifted people, improves almost naturally ... Muziboo has a cool feature where the "Music" link on the left bar opens a page which has a playlist on the right, and it streams all the songs on the page. I can't remember a time when I've closed the page cos I didn't want to listen anymore.


How George is not singing for Bollywood or winning American Idol (considering he lives in the US) is just beyond me.

Lastly its amazing how all these people tend to be among the nicest people I have met.

Enough words.... if you haven't heard George already, let the magic begin. And if you are someone with connections to music production, go ahead and convince George to sing professionally. You'd be doing yourself a HUGE favour.

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