He is such a rockstar guitarist that he is better known as Guitar Prasanna! Prasanna has been credited with pioneering Carnatic classical music renditions via the guitar.Skilled in composing and performing music in genres as diverse as jazz, progressive rock or fusion Carnatic music, R Prasanna is a livewire on the stage, leaving audiences wanting more. He starting playing the guitar at the age of 10 and his compositions were inspired by the Carnatic music in the air at his Chennai household, where he grew up influenced by both Western and Indian music.