Mumbai hotel foyers keep the live music tradition going in a time of EDM fever
(WorldNews India)

`If you don`t feel it, you`re not really playing it` Born in an Anglo Indian family from Bandra, Ivan Rodericks grew up listening to the piano. Once, when his sister made a mistake with the keys, Rodericks called her out. `She was surprised how I had figured, because I wasn`t learning music. I told her, `It`s all about feeling the music. If you don`t feel it, you`re not really playing it`,` he says. Ivan Rodericks has been playing in the JW Marriott lobby for the last 13 years. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar The belief has stayed with him. At 78, he travels from his Mount Mary Road home to JW Marriot Mumbai Juhu three times a week, to play the piano in the five-star`s foyer. It has been his routine for...