GAME ON

From the moment he could walk and talk, Dharni knew he wanted to be different. “I’ve always had an interest in music, but I’ve also always been a nonconformist,” he says. “I took up the piano when I was four, but then I quit because the teacher was too stringent and boring and classical.” At 13, he discovered beatboxing on music-sharing platforms, found a community of fellow enthusiasts on online forums, and was hooked. “I was listening to these MP3s and I was just so inspired. I started beatboxing, rapping, just playing and producing music—everything developed from there.”

Those developments