He is a burlesque performer. He is also a children's book author. But mainly, he's a musician who performs solo, as a duo, or as the front man of a full-fledged band. And that last avatar is the one in which the Mumbai audience will witness Englishman Spencer Maybe at a gig in SoBo tomorrow night.

The multi-instrumentalist and singer, whose real surname is Pearce, first started learning the piano in his childhood. But that didn't quite catch his fancy. So, he gave the harmonica a shot in his teens. And it was when he picked up the guitar as a 23-year-old that he finally got into his musical groove, forming a band in London as well as busking in the city's underground tube stations.