That is how you found my number?” Jonathan Angami breaks into a bout of laughter over a phone call from Nagaland. We had come across a photo online of a retro, no-nonsense handpainted signboard outside a school in Chumoukedima that read: Jonathan Angami, Singing Classes for All Ages. A trained Western musician from the Nagaland Conservatory of Music and a passionate teacher to young students at the S Apostolic Mission Residential School, Angami is now headed to Mumbai this week for a change of scenery.

Angami trains students at the S Apostolic Mission Residential School in Chumoukedima in Nagaland 

Not Dead Yet, a month-long showcase of pop, hip-hop, soul and R&B musicians will see Angami in the company of Delhi-based rock band Green Park, Mumbai-based Sidd Coutto, Pune-based Shreyas Sagwekar and Vedant Deshpande, and Bengaluru-based Joel Sakkari aka Sakré among other multi-genre acts.