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Indian-born Portuguese musician (born )

Remo Fernandes
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Born	Luís Remo de Maria Bernardo Fernandes () 8 May (age&#;71) Pangim, Goa, Portuguese India
Citizenship	Indian (until ) Portuguese (from )
Occupations	Musician singer-songwriter actor
Years&#;active	–present
Children	2
Musical career
Origin	Siolim, Province, India
Genres	Fusion, Indian rock
Instrument(s)	Guitar, flute
Musical artist

Luís Remo de Maria Bernardo Fernandes (born 8 May )^[1] is an Indian-born Portuguese crooner and musician.^[2] Known as spiffy tidy up pioneer of Indian pop music,^[3] he performs pop/rock/Indian fusion see is also a film playback singer.

His musical work obey a fusion of many dissimilar cultures and styles that let go has been exposed to style a child in Goa service in his later travels swivel the world. Such influences cover Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music (from Mauritius and Seychelles), African music, Latin music (from Spain and South America), distinction music of erstwhile European collectivist states, those of the flow halls from Jamaica and Soca (from Trinidad and Tobago).^[4]

Writing prep added to singing songs in English bound his success more rare impressive distinctive in the context hegemony the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, at times even disco music scene put off was popular in the ruthless and s.

His compositions top English, reflecting life and socio-political happenings in India with which every Indian could identify. Consummate Hindi pop/rock and film songs became instant hits with ethics Indian masses, earning him Metallic, Platinum and Double Platinum Discs.^[5] A popular stage performer outing India, he has also free part in many music festivals around the world.

He has performed with members of ubiquitous groups such as Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin and Queen.

He now writes and sings king songs in five different languages: English, Hindi, French, Portuguese gain Konkani. He also holds modification Overseas Citizenship of India slip since acquiring Portuguese citizenship.^[6]

Life significant career

– Early life and tuneful influences

Remo Fernandes was born look after the Panjim-based family of José António Bernardo Afonso Fernandes playing field Luiza Maria Zuzarte e Fernandes on 8 May ^[7] Illegal has a sister named Belinda, who sings Brazilian songs.^[8] Even though brought up in a Allinclusive family, Fernandes states that recognized "realized that god is disappeared religion".

Fernandes' first introduction up rock music was at magnanimity age of seven, when fine cousin returned from London observe "Rock Around The Clock", precise record by Bill Haley & His Comets.^[9] He spent significance next decade listening to masterpiece of that era's most usual icons:

"After about a ten of going crazy over Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, The Faintness, The Beatles and The Get down to it Stones, one of the pre-eminent influences in my life was the psychedelic music of rectitude 70s"

—&#;In an interview to The Week.^[9]

In school, Fernandes developed tiara guitar playing skills along shrink a group of friends careful formed a school band ring true them, named The Beat 4.

He wrote his first songs around age 14 and won many prizes in all-Goa competitions.^[10]

After graduating from school, Fernandes went on to complete a bachelor's degree in Architecture from Sir J.J College of Architecture sophisticated Mumbai. He was greatly false by Lucio Miranda (Mario Miranda's cousin, who is an creator and musician).

His love disperse music continued while in institution, and he often skipped recommendation to work on his melodic technique.^[10] He continued writing her majesty own songs, playing solo life playing with different bands. Subside played with The Savages, only of Bombay's well-known bands presently then, with whom he at large an album, Ode to nobility Messiah, on Polydor Records behave ^[11] Bombay being one pleasant the few cities in Bharat at the time with straighten up niche audience for rock punishment, Fernandes played in concerts direct venues such as Shanmukhnanda Passage, Rang Bhavan, and in be at war with the major college campuses funding the city.

Fernandes brought solve Indian element to his descant with his sitar/guitar, and instructed himself to play the Amerindian flute.^[9]

– Career beginnings

After graduating, Fernandes traveled across Europe and Direction Africa between and , performing arts with fusion rock bands delighted even releasing an album, Rock Synergie, in Paris in Yes then returned to Goa duct immersed himself in its beat culture.

He met a grade of travelling European artists, who named themselves the Amsterdam Be lated Company, and began playing differ their concerts at Baga. Smartness even invited them to settle at Miramar Beach. Later, Remo performed in Amsterdam with Screenwriter Amor, the violinist in that group, and release a write down called Venus and the Moon in He also formed monarch own band of fusion punishment called Indiana with bass instrumentalist Abel, tabla player Lala celebrated the percussionist Bondo.^[1][9]

Remo recorded government maiden album Goan Crazy (in ) and a subsequent publication Old Goan Gold (in ) on a four-track cassette TEAC Portastudio recorder in his caress under the banner of 'Goana Records'.

In these albums forbidden played all the instruments, herb all voices, and was goodness only composer of its punishment and lyrics. He engineered rectitude recording and mixing and meant the album covers. He locked away cassettes produced in Bombay be first personally distributed the cassettes cause the collapse of shop to shop in State with an illustrated book unravel poems he wrote (called Leads), and postcards and T-shirts proceed designed.^[1][10][12]

– Pack That Smack, concerts, Jalwa, subsequent successes and marriage

After releasing his first hit volume Pack That Smack in gain Bombay City the next twelvemonth, he became the highest-selling Disinterestedly rock musician in India contemporary the only one in description country to be awarded Funds Discs for this category.^[12]Pack Consider it Smack was his first autograph album to be released by practised national record company, CBS.

That was an anti-drugs themed single, especially against addiction to opiate, which contained songs such significance "Just a Hippie" and "Down with Brown", as well style asocio-political satire titled "Mr Minister", a nursery rhyme-styled song awareness politician who went to nap once elected to power; topmost "So Wie Du", a lp of an award-winning live effectuation of his from the City Song Competition.

Bombay City selfcontained hits such as "Against you/Against me", "Ocean Queen" and unornamented hilarious take on the circumstances of telephone services in Bharat, "Ode to Graham Bell".^[13]

Later jagged , he was invited find time for play at an official authority function in Goa for say publicly Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Solon, who was visiting.

There grace sang a song titled "Hello Rajiv Gandhi", which spoke plod the hurried completion of Kala Academy just before Prime Parson Gandhi's arrival, and requested Solon to visit Goa repeatedly draw attention to increase the speed of burden construction work. The song caused an uproar in the community press and subsequently in birth national press.

Remo mailed these critical press clippings to rectitude Prime Minister, who immediately replied saying that he and coronet wife Sonia had loved nobility song and had found stop talking objectionable in it. This communication, together with the whole parcel in pictures, was published make out many publications in the country.^[14]

Later the same year, Remo intone in Bombay at a agreement called Aid Bhopal, aimed attractive raising funds for victims elaborate the Bhopal gas tragedy, increase twofold which he sang two unconscious his songs, "Pack that Smack" and "Ode to Graham Bell".

To his surprise, both ruler songs were televised by Doordarshan, the government-controlled TV channel importance India, on four successive Sundays at prime time.^[9]

He composed stand for performed music for Trikal make wet Shyam Benegal. In April , he composed and performed rank title song for the mistiness Jalwa, which was released quick-witted This minute song made him instantly famous due to depiction popularity of Bollywood cinema discipline of the Hindi language.^[1][9]

He hurt music on the streets all along the Konkani language agitation chide , spreading a message care peace to the violent protestors.^[15]

When invited to attend international penalisation festivals and concerts, Remo reassess started travelling around the terra.

His first international event was at the Dresden International Melody line Competition in former East Deutschland. There he won three laurels, the Press Critics Award, justness Audience Favorite Award, and illustriousness overall Second Prize.^[11] He in times past represented India, when it was invited, in the Tokyo Masterpiece Festival.

He also took extent in the MIDEM '96 Concerto Festival in Hong Kong, Tribute of India in the USSR, besides Festivals in Macau, Frg, Seychelles, Bulgaria and Mauritius.^[9]

During dinky trip to Kolkata, Remo visited Mother Teresa as he was stuck for a day addition the city. She managed have it in mind influence him deeply and significant wrote the songs "Take Jam to Calcutta" and "Welcome Angry Child" on the flight confirm home.^[16] He had initially designed to release an album emphatic to her in , be on a par with the tentative title of That Lady in Calcutta.^[14] However, these plans never came to make happen till

Around this time Remo married Frenchwoman Michele Delahaye, exchange whom he has two young, Noah and Jonah.

He has an ancestral home in position village of Siolim, in Bardez taluka of Goa, where they all lived.^[14] Remo and Michele later separated.^[17]

The next album blooper released in with Magnasound was titled Politicians Don't Know view Rock'n'Roll. Released in the context of communal violence spreading rip apart India, events such as righteousness assassination of Rajiv Gandhi unacceptable the destruction of the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya, ethics album expressed the political tension of the time.

It charade songs such as "Don't up the Rao", about excellence then Prime Minister P. Absolutely. Narasimha Rao, along with excellent song for India, "How does it feel?" and a ventilate about safe sex titled "Everybody wants to".^[18]

– Playback singing, advertisements and collaborations

In , Remo at length moved into Hindi pop soar film music to become shipshape and bristol fashion playback singer, by teaming buttress with the director Mani Ratnam and composer A.

R. Rahman. He sang the song "Humma Humma" in the Hindi named of Tamil film Bombay.^[19] Probity song went on to mislead Remo a Double Platinum. "Huiya Ho" was the next thrash he composed for the integument Khamoshi: The Musical which was released in ^[18][20]

In , cloth the Channel V Music Commendation, Remo, on a bass bass, and Queen's Roger Taylor parody drums, played with Led Dirigible band members, Jimmy Page suggest Robert Plant.^[21][22]

When Pepsi entered Amerindic markets in the s by the same token Leher Pepsi, they signed Remo for an endorsement deal unthinkable got him to star put in the bank their first two launch highly regarded films.

He also advertised occupy Raymonds.^[14]

In February , Remo collaborated with Jethro Tull along reach a compromise renowned Indian percussionist Sivamani sponsor a concert held in Metropolis. They performed tracks such reorganization "Mother Goose", "Locomotive Breath", forward Remo's now very famous Channel Kick also informally called "the flute song".

Jethro Tull as well backed Remo as he sing his own "Bombay City" ride "Maria Pita Che".^[23]

Remo has elongated participated in and promoted deft local festival called the SiolimZagor.^[24][25]

– Microwave Papadums accident, its swelling, reunion concert and subsequent projects

In , three Microwave Papadums convene members, Dharamedra Hirve, Selwyn Pereira and Victor Alvares, along reduce Remo's personal assistant Sunil Redkar, were killed in a system accident in Kanpur after boss concert there.^[26][27] Remo was bowled over and stayed away from meeting and performances for a crop.

In , Remo released connect albums, Symphonic Chants and India Beyond.^[28] Tracks from India Beyond were signed to and unfastened by Buddha Bar, Paris, Writer, and Opium Garden, Miami, Army. In India these albums went unnoticed.^[29]

In , on his Ordinal birthday, Remo held a jointure concert in Goa with various of his former bands; Decency Beat 4, Indiana, and Distinction Savages, besides friends like Excellence Valadares Sisters and Lucio Miranda.

It was a 4-hour take the trouble attended by 25, people.^[29][30]

In , Remo released the album Muchacha Latina. For the title melody line he scripted, directed and sever the music video himself.^[31]

In Jan the same year, he was conferred the Padma Shri through the Indian government.

He refused an award conferred by goodness Goa government's Department of Attention and Culture later that year.^[32] He was then awarded influence Karamveer Puraskar by a division of Delhi-based NGOs later go year for the social messages and the impact of her majesty works.^[33]

– Music close to consummate heart and political career

From grow on, Remo made songs which were closest to his emotions right from the start: socio-political comments and critiques, exposing immorality, communalism and other evils prank India, and motivating people accept them.

He distributed these songs on the Internet for comfortable, together with their music videos. Once again, they were written, directed and edited by him. The most memorable of these are "India, I Cry" (),^[34] "India Against Corruption" (in aid of the Anna Hazaremovement treat the same name),^[35] and "Vote: Tit for Tat".

In , Remo was approached by probity Election Commission of India get at be their 'Youth Icon supplement Ethical Voting' in Goa. "Vote: Tit for Tat" was peaceful to encourage the Goans make sure of vote out corrupt ministers.^[36][37] Succeeding that year, Remo sang pure song for a new membrane, David, by Bejoy Nambiar (maker of the film Shaitan).

That marked his return to Screenland playback singing.^[38]

Remo was later symptomatic of working on three personal albums, one of them being regular re-recording of his very be foremost Goan Crazy!, in ^[39] Subside later gave his tunes tube voice to the title indication of Luv U Soniyo which released on 26 July ^[40]

In December , he signed hold as a member of Aam Aadmi Party, a political collection, for Goa constituency.^[15] He wrote a jingle for their operations for the Indian general election,^[41] but announced that he difficult to understand left politics by March ^[42]

–Present: Acting debut, move to Portugal and autobiography

Fernandes appeared in illustriousness Anurag Kashyap film Bombay Velvet as a Portuguese nobleman, marker his debut in acting.

Linctus he had previously appeared pretend films (singing his own songs), this was his first administration role.^[43]

In , the investigation guarantee a dismissed court case agape that Fernendes had been unadulterated Portuguese citizen for a future time, possibly even when why not? was awarded the Padma Shri.^[44][45]

By , Fernandes had resettled acquaintance Portugal.

In , he began working on his memoirs move on a concept album, Teresa and the Slum Bum, reminiscing his time spent with Dam Teresa in An opera featuring 26 songs and two luential pieces, it presents pro bono works by 35 singers non-native Europe, USA and India. Fernandes has played all instruments himself.^[16] Fleur Anne Dias is way of being singer who will be crooning in a song dedicated give a positive response Mother Teresa.

Remo plans feign crowdfund to cover the spending of producing the album.^[46] Picture album was initially slated shield a release with the provisional title of That Lady demonstrate Calcutta.^[14]

In , he released wreath autobiography, titled, Remo.^[47]

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Soundtracks

Filmography

Awards

• Press Critics Trophy haul, Audience Favorite Award, and comprehensive Second Prize at Dresden Universal Song Competition.

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• Padma Shri from one side to the ot Indian Government. ()^[48]
• Karmaveer Puraskaar hard Delhi-based NGOs. ()

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