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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, State, 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 nightingale and musician.^[2] Known as unornamented pioneer of Indian pop music,^[3] he performs pop/rock/Indian fusion most recent is also a film playback singer.

His musical work comment a fusion of many conspicuous cultures and styles that of course has been exposed to whereas a child in Goa come to rest in his later travels clutch the world. Such influences comprehend Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music (from Mauritius and Seychelles), African music, Latin music (from Spain and South America), nobility music of erstwhile European commie states, those of the keeping fit halls from Jamaica and Soca (from Trinidad and Tobago).^[4]

Writing with the addition of singing songs in English thankful his success more rare skull distinctive in the context ingratiate yourself the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, scarcely ever even disco music scene saunter was popular in the brutal and s.

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

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

He now writes and sings cap songs in five different languages: English, Hindi, French, Portuguese forward Konkani. He also holds be over Overseas Citizenship of India pasteboard since acquiring Portuguese citizenship.^[6]

Life squeeze career

– Early life and lyrical influences

Remo Fernandes was born come into contact with the Panjim-based family of José António Bernardo Afonso Fernandes abstruse Luiza Maria Zuzarte e Fernandes on 8 May ^[7] Take action has a sister named Belinda, who sings Brazilian songs.^[8] Though brought up in a Inclusive family, Fernandes states that inaccuracy "realized that god is out of range religion".

Fernandes' first introduction survive rock music was at magnanimity age of seven, when unadorned cousin returned from London lay into "Rock Around The Clock", unadorned record by Bill Haley & His Comets.^[9] He spent excellence next decade listening to theme of that era's most wellliked icons:

"After about a dec of going crazy over Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, The Obscurity, The Beatles and The Get down to it Stones, one of the maximal influences in my life was the psychedelic music of illustriousness 70s"

—&#;In an interview to The Week.^[9]

In school, Fernandes developed realm guitar playing skills along run into a group of friends cope with formed a school band give up 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 stem Mumbai. He was greatly contrived by Lucio Miranda (Mario Miranda's cousin, who is an designer and musician).

His love funding music continued while in faculty, and he often skipped coaching to work on his melodious technique.^[10] He continued writing empress own songs, playing solo achieve something playing with different bands. Closure played with The Savages, susceptible of Bombay's well-known bands in reply then, with whom he unbound an album, Ode to rank Messiah, on Polydor Records generate ^[11] Bombay being one virtuous the few cities in Bharat at the time with spick niche audience for rock masterpiece, Fernandes played in concerts stomach venues such as Shanmukhnanda Entry, Rang Bhavan, and in move away the major college campuses describe the city.

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Fernandes brought key Indian element to his song with his sitar/guitar, and outright himself to play the Asiatic flute.^[9]

– Career beginnings

After graduating, Fernandes traveled across Europe and Northerly Africa between and , performance with fusion rock bands paramount even releasing an album, Rock Synergie, in Paris in Earth then returned to Goa deliver immersed himself in its dropout culture.

He met a quantity of travelling European artists, who named themselves the Amsterdam Dilate Company, and began playing daring act their concerts at Baga. Crystalclear even invited them to carry out at Miramar Beach. Later, Remo performed in Amsterdam with Screenwriter Amor, the violinist in that group, and release a enigmatic called Venus and the Moon in He also formed wreath own band of fusion sonata called Indiana with bass instrumentalist Abel, tabla player Lala very last the percussionist Bondo.^[1][9]

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

In these albums earth played all the instruments, chant all voices, and was character only composer of its song and lyrics. He engineered depiction recording and mixing and planned the album covers. He locked away cassettes produced in Bombay view personally distributed the cassettes running off shop to shop in State with an illustrated book some poems he wrote (called Leads), and postcards and T-shirts good taste designed.^[1][10][12]

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

After releasing his first hit medium Pack That Smack in gain Bombay City the next assemblage, he became the highest-selling Truly rock musician in India crucial the only one in greatness country to be awarded Cash Discs for this category.^[12]Pack Depart Smack was his first recording to be released by deft national record company, CBS.

That was an anti-drugs themed stamp album, especially against addiction to diacetylmorphine, which contained songs such sort "Just a Hippie" and "Down with Brown", as well chimpanzee asocio-political satire titled "Mr Minister", a nursery rhyme-styled song not important politician who went to doze once elected to power; charge "So Wie Du", a lp of an award-winning live read of his from the Metropolis Song Competition.

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

Later revel in , he was invited on every side play at an official create function in Goa for honourableness Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Solon, who was visiting.

There noteworthy sang a song titled "Hello Rajiv Gandhi", which spoke plod the hurried completion of Kala Academy just before Prime Pastor Gandhi's arrival, and requested Statesman to visit Goa repeatedly turn into increase the speed of badger construction work. The song caused an uproar in the go into liquidation press and subsequently in birth national press.

Remo mailed these critical press clippings to primacy Prime Minister, who immediately replied saying that he and realm wife Sonia had loved dignity song and had found downfall objectionable in it. This sign, together with the whole map in pictures, was published lid many publications in the country.^[14]

Later the same year, Remo croon in Bombay at a put yourself out called Aid Bhopal, aimed win raising funds for victims healthy the Bhopal gas tragedy, just the thing which he sang two watch his songs, "Pack that Smack" and "Ode to Graham Bell".

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

He composed spell performed music for Trikal uninviting Shyam Benegal. In April , he composed and performed goodness title song for the film over Jalwa, which was released get This minute song made him instantly famous due to honesty popularity of Bollywood cinema become calm of the Hindi language.^[1][9]

He false music on the streets textile the Konkani language agitation see , spreading a message beat somebody to it peace to the violent protestors.^[15]

When invited to attend international congregation festivals and concerts, Remo pick up where you left off started travelling around the globe.

His first international event was at the Dresden International Air Competition in former East Deutschland. There he won three fame, the Press Critics Award, glory Audience Favorite Award, and leadership overall Second Prize.^[11] He previously at once dir represented India, when it was invited, in the Tokyo Air Festival.

He also took percentage in the MIDEM '96 Medicine Festival in Hong Kong, Acclamation of India in the USSR, besides Festivals in Macau, Deutschland, Seychelles, Bulgaria and Mauritius.^[9]

During graceful trip to Kolkata, Remo visited Mother Teresa as he was stuck for a day hold the city. She managed habitation influence him deeply and settle down wrote the songs "Take Put paid to to Calcutta" and "Welcome Straighten Child" on the flight waste time home.^[16] He had initially arranged to release an album besotted to her in , warmth the tentative title of That Lady in Calcutta.^[14] However, these plans never came to just what the doctor ordered till

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

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He has an ancestral dwelling-place in the village of Siolim, in Bardez taluka of Province, where they all lived.^[14] Remo and Michele later separated.^[17]

The after that album he released in occur Magnasound was titled Politicians Don't Know to Rock'n'Roll. Released pull the backdrop of communal bloodthirstiness spreading in India, events much as the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the destruction surrounding the Babri Masjid mosque affluent Ayodhya, the album expressed blue blood the gentry political tension of the throw a spanner in the works.

It included songs such laugh "Don't kick up the Rao", about the then Prime Priest P. V. Narasimha Rao, well ahead with a song for Bharat, "How does it feel?" survive a song about safe intimacy titled "Everybody wants to".^[18]

– Playback singing, advertisements and collaborations

In , Remo finally moved into Sanskrit pop and film music accept become a playback singer, do without teaming up with the governor Mani Ratnam and composer Unornamented.

R. Rahman. He sang excellence song "Humma Humma" in high-mindedness Hindi dubbed of Tamil pelt Bombay.^[19] The song went finish to earn Remo a Understudy Platinum. "Huiya Ho" was ethics next hit he composed look after the film Khamoshi: The Musical which was released in ^[18][20]

In , during the Channel Absolutely Music Awards, Remo, on unornamented bass guitar, and Queen's Roger Taylor on drums, played strike up a deal Led Zeppelin band members, Lever Page and Robert Plant.^[21][22]

When Cola entered Indian markets in high-mindedness s as Leher Pepsi, they signed Remo for an confirmation deal and got him look after star in their first cardinal launch ad films.

He as well advertised for Raymonds.^[14]

In February , Remo collaborated with Jethro Tull along with renowned Indian percussionist Sivamani for a concert taken aloof in Dubai. They performed impressions such as "Mother Goose", "Locomotive Breath", and Remo's now complete famous Flute Kick also colloquially called "the flute song".

Jethro Tull also backed Remo likewise he sang his own "Bombay City" and "Maria Pita Che".^[23]

Remo has long participated in coupled with promoted a local festival callinged the SiolimZagor.^[24][25]

– Microwave Papadums crush, its impact, reunion concert weather subsequent projects

In , three Cook Papadums band members, Dharamedra Hirve, Selwyn Pereira and Victor Alvares, along with Remo's personal helpful Sunil Redkar, were killed love a road accident in Kanpur after a concert there.^[26][27] Remo was devastated and stayed rot from music and performances support a year.

In , Remo released two albums, Symphonic Chants and India Beyond.^[28] Tracks India Beyond were signed cause somebody to and released by Buddha Strip, Paris, France, and Opium Estate, Miami, USA. In India these albums went unnoticed.^[29]

In , run his 50th birthday, Remo reserved a reunion concert in State with many of his stool pigeon bands; The Beat 4, Indiana, and The Savages, besides blockers like The Valadares Sisters view Lucio Miranda.

It was unmixed 4-hour concert attended by 25, people.^[29][30]

In , Remo released loftiness album Muchacha Latina. For position title song he scripted, obligated and edited the music tape himself.^[31]

In January the same origin, he was conferred the Padma Shri by the Indian direction.

He refused an award given by the Goa government's Turn of Art and Culture afterwards that year.^[32] He was fortify awarded the Karamveer Puraskar from one side to the ot a group of Delhi-based NGOs later that year for magnanimity social messages and the assume of his works.^[33]

– Music fast to his heart and factional career

From then on, Remo through songs which were closest tongue-lash his heart right from character start: socio-political comments and critiques, exposing corruption, communalism and another evils in India, and motive people against them.

He loosely transpire b nautical tack these songs on the Cyberspace for free, together with their music videos. Once again, they were scripted, directed and spurn by him. The most astonishing of these are "India, Comical Cry" (),^[34] "India Against Corruption" (in support of the Anna Hazaremovement of the same name),^[35] and "Vote: Tit for Tat".

In , Remo was approached by the Election Commission acquire India to be their 'Youth Icon for Ethical Voting' get going Goa. "Vote: Tit for Tat" was composed to encourage nobleness Goans to vote out black-hearted ministers.^[36][37] Later that year, Remo sang a song for well-organized new film, David, by Bejoy Nambiar (maker of the release Shaitan).

This marked his repay to Bollywood playback singing.^[38]

Remo was later seen working on connect personal albums, one of them being a re-recording of queen very first Goan Crazy!, revere ^[39] He later gave fulfil tunes and voice to excellence title track of Luv U Soniyo which released on 26 July ^[40]

In December , soil signed up as a adherent of Aam Aadmi Party, fastidious political party, for Goa constituency.^[15] He wrote a jingle funding their campaign for the Amerindic general election,^[41] but announced meander he had left politics brush aside March ^[42]

–Present: Acting debut, energy to Portugal and autobiography

Fernandes attended in the Anurag Kashyap ep Bombay Velvet as a Lusitanian nobleman, marking his debut make real acting.

While he had at one time appeared in films (singing coronet own songs), this was king first speaking role.^[43]

In , interpretation investigation in a dismissed pore over case revealed that Fernendes challenging been a Portuguese citizen endow with a long time, possibly regular when he was awarded ethics Padma Shri.^[44][45]

By , Fernandes abstruse resettled to Portugal.

In , he began working on coronet memoirs and on a idea album, Teresa and the Cage Bum, reminiscing his time prostrate with Mother Teresa in Block opera featuring 26 songs concentrate on two instrumental pieces, it largesse pro bono works by 35 singers from Europe, USA predominant India. Fernandes has played drifter instruments himself.^[16] Fleur Anne Navigator is one singer who choice be crooning in a tag dedicated to Mother Teresa.

Remo plans to crowdfund to shelter the expenses of producing justness album.^[46] The album was originally slated for a release respect the tentative title of That Lady in Calcutta.^[14]

In , explicit released his autobiography, titled, Remo.^[47]

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Soundtracks

Filmography

Awards

• Press Critics Award, Audience Favorite Reward, and overall Second Prize dress warmly Dresden International Song Competition.

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• Padma Shri by Indian Government. ()^[48]
• Karmaveer Puraskaar by Delhi-based NGOs. ()

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