About PG
The guy who never turns the music off.
Hi. I'm PG. I sing all the time — in the car, in the shower, in meetings I'm definitely paying full attention in. There is always something playing in my head. Right now, as I type this, it's Al Green asking why people break up and then turn around and make up. ("Let's Stay Together," 1972. Tina Turner's cover is legendary too. Fight me.)
Swara exists because I wanted a room where the music never has to stop and nobody's trying to sell you anything. A place where a kid with a guitar in one country can learn from a drummer in another, where working musicians get paid fairly, and where the vibe is "come jam" instead of "sign here."
I'm not a label. I'm not a manager. I'm the guy in the corner humming along who happened to build the room.
Oh — and when the headphones go on, I'm DJ Pu-Mama. My two-year-old nephew can't pronounce "Puru" — it comes out "Peru" — and mama means uncle in Hindi. So the universe named me. Life throws you clues and hints all the time. You take them.
The record collection
What raised me, musically.
My influences are all over the map, which is exactly how I like it. The through-line: every one of these artists makes you feel something in the first eight bars.
Currently on repeat
The song living in my head right now.
“Let's Stay Together” — Al Green (1972).
You know the one — "why do people break up, then turn around and make up?" I couldn't remember the title for the longest time, just that line looping in my brain like a screensaver. Fifty-plus years old and it still stops a room. That's the standard. That's what Swara is chasing: music that doesn't need an explanation.