Born into a family of musicians, including his vocalist mother and instrumentalist uncles, it seems like it was only a matter of time that Tanmay Saxena, now known more popularly as Tienas, turned to music. And thank god for that. For today, he’s made a mark for himself, as proven by his debut 13-track album titled O that he had released last week.

Ask him about his first memory of singing, and he admits that like all Indian households, he too had caught the Bollywood bug. “It got me into a lot of trouble. Also because I never had a stutter while singing, so my teachers thought I was a fraud,” the Mumbai-based rapper/producer reveals.