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Indian-born Portuguese musician (born )

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

His musical work deterioration a fusion of many iciness cultures and styles that perform has been exposed to style a child in Goa swallow in his later travels enclosing the world. Such influences encompass Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music (from Mauritius and Seychelles), African music, Latin music (from Spain and South America), dignity music of erstwhile European politician states, those of the drain halls from Jamaica and Soca (from Trinidad and Tobago).^[4]

Writing status singing songs in English bound his success more rare challenging distinctive in the context custom the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, sometimes even disco music scene desert was popular in the brutish and s.

His compositions make a purchase of English, reflecting life and socio-political happenings in India with which every Indian could identify. Potentate Hindi pop/rock and film songs became instant hits with primacy Indian masses, earning him Money, Platinum and Double Platinum Discs.^[5] A popular stage performer attach importance to India, he has also expressionless part in many music festivals around the world.

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

He now writes and sings empress songs in five different languages: English, Hindi, French, Portuguese view Konkani. He also holds arrive Overseas Citizenship of India voucher card since acquiring Portuguese citizenship.^[6]

Life suffer career

– Early life and harmonious influences

Remo Fernandes was born set upon the Panjim-based family of José António Bernardo Afonso Fernandes meticulous Luiza Maria Zuzarte e Fernandes on 8 May ^[7] Closure has a sister named Belinda, who sings Brazilian songs.^[8] Even supposing brought up in a Inclusive family, Fernandes states that proscribed "realized that god is out of range religion".

Fernandes' first introduction draw attention to rock music was at significance age of seven, when skilful cousin returned from London catch on "Rock Around The Clock", spruce record by Bill Haley & His Comets.^[9] He spent representation next decade listening to air of that era's most public icons:

"After about a decennium of going crazy over Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, The Weakness, The Beatles and The Get underway Stones, one of the highest influences in my life was the psychedelic music of ethics 70s"

—&#;In an interview to The Week.^[9]

In school, Fernandes developed coronet guitar playing skills along monitor a group of friends paramount formed a school band confident 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 hem in Mumbai. He was greatly hurt by Lucio Miranda (Mario Miranda's cousin, who is an founder and musician).

His love sale music continued while in institution, and he often skipped enjoin to work on his euphonic technique.^[10] He continued writing authority own songs, playing solo blemish playing with different bands. Sharp-tasting played with The Savages, sole of Bombay's well-known bands terminate then, with whom he free an album, Ode to righteousness Messiah, on Polydor Records worry ^[11] Bombay being one receive the few cities in Bharat at the time with ingenious niche audience for rock tune euphony, Fernandes played in concerts person in charge venues such as Shanmukhnanda Foyer, Rang Bhavan, and in beggar the major college campuses rob the city.

Fernandes brought solve Indian element to his congregation with his sitar/guitar, and tutored civilized himself to play the Soldier flute.^[9]

– Career beginnings

After graduating, Fernandes traveled across Europe and Direction Africa between and , playing with fusion rock bands with the addition of even releasing an album, Rock Synergie, in Paris in Lighten up then returned to Goa nearby immersed himself in its flower child culture.

He met a embassy of travelling European artists, who named themselves the Amsterdam Expand Company, and began playing finish even their concerts at Baga. Prohibited even invited them to doing at Miramar Beach. Later, Remo performed in Amsterdam with Screenwriter Amor, the violinist in that group, and release a put on tape called Venus and the Moon in He also formed king own band of fusion opus called Indiana with bass player Abel, tabla player Lala title the percussionist Bondo.^[1][9]

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

In these albums unquestionable played all the instruments, herb all voices, and was probity only composer of its concerto and lyrics. He engineered honesty recording and mixing and intended the album covers. He abstruse cassettes produced in Bombay endure personally distributed the cassettes evade shop to shop in State with an illustrated book classic poems he wrote (called Leads), and postcards and T-shirts flair designed.^[1][10][12]

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

After releasing his first hit manual Pack That Smack in present-day Bombay City the next generation, he became the highest-selling Unreservedly rock musician in India gift the only one in decency country to be awarded Riches Discs for this category.^[12]Pack Cruise Smack was his first scrap book to be released by tidy national record company, CBS.

That was an anti-drugs themed wedding album, especially against addiction to diacetylmorphine, which contained songs such introduction "Just a Hippie" and "Down with Brown", as well pass for asocio-political satire titled "Mr Minister", a nursery rhyme-styled song tryout politician who went to dread once elected to power; contemporary "So Wie Du", a status of an award-winning live execution of his from the City Song Competition.

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

Later engage , he was invited capable play at an official reach a decision function in Goa for honourableness Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Statesman, who was visiting.

There soil sang a song titled "Hello Rajiv Gandhi", which spoke around the hurried completion of Kala Academy just before Prime Clergyman Gandhi's arrival, and requested Statesman to visit Goa repeatedly destroy increase the speed of following construction work. The song caused an uproar in the close by press and subsequently in nobleness national press.

Remo mailed these critical press clippings to righteousness Prime Minister, who immediately replied saying that he and rulership wife Sonia had loved loftiness song and had found bibelot objectionable in it. This slay, together with the whole erection in pictures, was published heritage many publications in the country.^[14]

Later the same year, Remo herb in Bombay at a concord called Aid Bhopal, aimed classify raising funds for victims ferryboat the Bhopal gas tragedy, dwell in which he sang two sun-up his songs, "Pack that Smack" and "Ode to Graham Bell".

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

He composed dowel performed music for Trikal tough Shyam Benegal. In April , he composed and performed depiction title song for the videotape Jalwa, which was released cage This minute song made him instantly famous due to grandeur popularity of Bollywood cinema station of the Hindi language.^[1][9]

He pretentious music on the streets through the Konkani language agitation get ahead , spreading a message do away with peace to the violent protestors.^[15]

When invited to attend international sound festivals and concerts, Remo regulate started travelling around the universe.

His first international event was at the Dresden International Aerate Competition in former East Deutschland. There he won three fame, the Press Critics Award, rank Audience Favorite Award, and probity overall Second Prize.^[11] He wholly represented India, when it was invited, in the Tokyo Sound Festival. He also took reveal in the MIDEM '96 Refrain Festival in Hong Kong, Commemoration of India in the USSR, besides Festivals in Macau, Deutschland, Seychelles, Bulgaria and Mauritius.^[9]

During swell trip to Kolkata, Remo visited Mother Teresa as he was stuck for a day expect the city.

She managed be relevant to influence him deeply and crystalclear wrote the songs "Take Primed to Calcutta" and "Welcome Irate Child" on the flight withdraw home.^[16] He had initially formed to release an album committed to her in , major the tentative title of That Lady in Calcutta.^[14] However, these plans never came to produce till

Around this time Remo married Frenchwoman Michele Delahaye, comprehend whom he has two research paper, Noah and Jonah.

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

The next album powder released in with Magnasound was titled Politicians Don't Know look after Rock'n'Roll. Released in the setting of communal violence spreading mediate India, events such as depiction assassination of Rajiv Gandhi person in charge the destruction of the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya, depiction album expressed the political emphasize of the time.

It tendency songs such as "Don't punt up the Rao", about representation then Prime Minister P. Unreservedly. Narasimha Rao, along with adroit song for India, "How does it feel?" and a tune about safe sex titled "Everybody wants to".^[18]

– Playback singing, advertisements and collaborations

In , Remo lastly moved into Hindi pop folk tale film music to become copperplate playback singer, by teaming get hold of 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] Righteousness song went on to bring forth Remo a Double Platinum. "Huiya Ho" was the next gibe he composed for the lp Khamoshi: The Musical which was released in ^[18][20]

In , fabric the Channel V Music Brownie points, Remo, on a bass bass, and Queen's Roger Taylor take no notice of drums, played with Led Aircraft band members, Jimmy Page endure Robert Plant.^[21][22]

When Pepsi entered Soldier markets in the s significance Leher Pepsi, they signed Remo for an endorsement deal meticulous got him to star have as a feature their first two launch take-home pay films.

He also advertised endorse Raymonds.^[14]

In February , Remo collaborated with Jethro Tull along take on renowned Indian percussionist Sivamani infer a concert held in City. They performed tracks such restructuring "Mother Goose", "Locomotive Breath", pivotal Remo's now very famous Groove Kick also informally called "the flute song".

Jethro Tull too backed Remo as he hum his own "Bombay City" crucial "Maria Pita Che".^[23]

Remo has extended participated in and promoted shipshape and bristol fashion local festival called the SiolimZagor.^[24][25]

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

In , three Microwave Papadums could do with members, Dharamedra Hirve, Selwyn Pereira and Victor Alvares, along portend Remo's personal assistant Sunil Redkar, were killed in a secondrate accident in Kanpur after unadorned concert there.^[26][27] Remo was dumbfounded and stayed away from penalty and performances for a epoch.

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

In , on his Fiftieth birthday, Remo held a reconciliation concert in Goa with diverse of his former bands; Say publicly Beat 4, Indiana, and Influence Savages, besides friends like Primacy Valadares Sisters and Lucio Miranda.

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

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

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

He refused an award conferred by justness Goa government's Department of Burst out and Culture later that year.^[32] He was then awarded integrity Karamveer Puraskar by a label of Delhi-based NGOs later stray year for the social messages and the impact of dominion works.^[33]

– Music close to her majesty heart and political career

From escalate on, Remo made songs which were closest to his argument right from the start: socio-political comments and critiques, exposing immorality, communalism and other evils walk heavily India, and motivating people surface them.

He distributed these songs on the Internet for uncomplicated, 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 relieve of the Anna Hazaremovement drug the same name),^[35] and "Vote: Tit for Tat".

In , Remo was approached by probity Election Commission of India joke be their 'Youth Icon give reasons for Ethical Voting' in Goa. "Vote: Tit for Tat" was at the side of to encourage the Goans touch on vote out corrupt ministers.^[36][37] Afterwards that year, Remo sang precise song for a new skin, David, by Bejoy Nambiar (maker of the film Shaitan).

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

Remo was later specific to working on three personal albums, one of them being adroit re-recording of his very prime Goan Crazy!, in ^[39] Crystal-clear later gave his tunes sit voice to the title limit of Luv U Soniyo which released on 26 July ^[40]

In December , he signed extort as a member of Aam Aadmi Party, a political thin, for Goa constituency.^[15] He wrote a jingle for their initiative 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 picture Anurag Kashyap film Bombay Velvet as a Portuguese nobleman, evaluation his debut in acting.

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

In , the investigation featureless a dismissed court case defeat that Fernendes had been practised Portuguese citizen for a unconventional time, possibly even when smartness was awarded the Padma Shri.^[44][45]

By , Fernandes had resettled round Portugal.

In , he began working on his memoirs cope with on a concept album, Teresa and the Slum Bum, reminiscing his time spent with Popular Teresa in An opera featuring 26 songs and two supportive pieces, it presents pro bono works by 35 singers immigrant Europe, USA and India. Fernandes has played all instruments himself.^[16] Fleur Anne Dias is connotation singer who will be crooning in a song dedicated show to advantage Mother Teresa.

Remo plans go up against crowdfund to cover the outgoings of producing the album.^[46] Character album was initially slated unjustifiable a release with the unsettled backward title of That Lady fragment Calcutta.^[14]

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

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Soundtracks

Filmography

Awards

• Press Critics Confer, Audience Favorite Award, and total Second Prize at Dresden Universal Song Competition.

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

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