Ani Bharadwaj (better known as weird inside) is a musician and animator born in 1998 in New York and has spent most of his life in Bridgewater, New Jersey. he grew up singing south indian classical (carnatic) music and discovered electronic music at the age of 12, and started trying to make his own at the age of 15. other than music, he also creates in many other forms of media, including animation, digital art, and film/video. he attended the california institute of the arts (calarts) in experimental animation for two semesters, before leaving to pursue a career in music and freelance media. His music has acieved tens of millions of plays on spotify and much more on other platfoems as well.