John Mayer born 1930 in Calcutta, was attracted to music at an early age. At seven he was able to study violin with Phillipe Sandre at the Calcutta School of Music, who agreed to teach him in his free time as Mayer's parents an Anglo-Indian father and Indian mother, did not have the wherewithal to send him there as a fee paying pupil. later he studied with Melhi Metha who encouraged him to compete for a scholarship to the Royal Academy in London. Mayer was determined to be a composer who would be taken seriously both in his own country and abroad.
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