Bradley D’Souza’s influences were set at an early age. He goes back far enough to remember that he used to sleep listening to his father play rock and funk for him. Inspired by his father, Russel, a bassist himself – he picked up the guitar when he was 5. At the age of 16, owned his first guitar and played his first mainstream gig with Mizmaar.

The richness of his bass lines only got better with time, and easily had him featured on tracks by Najam Shiraz, as well as helped him kickstart his own band, Miraaj with fellow musicians. Bradley joined Strings on bass in August 2015, and will make his debut appearance on Coke Studio, Season 9, this year.