Ace of bass: A Wknd interview with musician Mohini Dey

As a child prodigy, she performed with Zakir Hussain and AR Rahman. Now 27, she has taken centrestage, with a debut album that is a masterclass in bass guitar.

Even as a toddler, she was all about the bass. Mohini Dey started playing the bass guitar when she was three, practising on a small wooden instrument that her father, bassist Sujoy Dey, custom-made for her tiny hands.

By the time she was 13, she had worked or performed with legends such as tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and composers AR Rahman and Amit Trivedi. She would go on to play at hundreds of gigs around the world.

Dey recently released