A still from Aksomaniac's song Amsham. When Covid hit in 2020, many Class XII students were navigating online learning. Some were sleeping through their classes, some were playing online games but Aron Kollassani Selestin (pictured) was on the piano. “I would prop my ipad on top of my piano, log in for online classes with the video off while I played. I didn’t care much about my academics at that time,” he says with a laugh and not an ounce of regret. “Though eventually, I studied and got good marks,” he adds. Aron, better known by his stage name, Aksomaniac, is singer-songwriter and producer from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, basking in the success of his viral track Amsham which released last month. The track was ranked No 4 on Spotify’s Viral 50 Global charts earlier in May, with over 15 million streams on Spotify and more than 13 million views on YouTube. The track, which has been viral on Instagram since then, seamlessly transitions across genres such as R&B and hip-hop.…