Baluji Shrivastav was born in Usmanpura in Aligarh. His love affair with music began with Bollywood and his mother's singing and her playing the harmonium. But he didn't realise how good a singer his mother was, like the most of us. As a student at Gwalior Blind School, music was a compulsory subject, or like he puts it, "a stigma attached to Indians that the visually challenged can excel only in music."

As the noted multi-instrumentalist and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) narrates his journey in the industry, the connecting dots he reveals come across as beautiful moments of serendipity — that would cease to exist if he didn't believe in himself. After travelling across the country while performing and teaching music, he made his way to France in the 1980s.