Living the dream

LAST month, Andreas Varady attended his manager Quincy Jones’ 80th birthday party in Las Vegas, met Will Smith and Chris Tucker, and shared a limousine with jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky.

Recently described by Jones as being “possibly the best young guitarist in the world”, Varady will tour Asia this year with Jones’s Global Gumbo All-Stars, and hopes to sign a contract with Verve Music Group.

“You have dreams and then there’s [bigger] dreams. This is one of them. It’s really big,” says Varady, who will sit his Junior Certificate exam in June at St Nessan’s Community College in Limerick.