Remo Fernandes

    Hindi , English , Kannada ,

           Telugu , Konkani

           Luís Remo DE Maria Bernardo Fernandes, additional popularly called Remo Fernandes (born eight could 1953),may be a pop/rock/Indian fusion creative person and film playback singer from the state of province, India. His musical work may be a fusion of the many totally different cultures and designs he is been exposed to as a baby in province and in his later travels round the world. Such influences embrace Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music from Mauritius and Seychelles, African music, Latin music from Spain and South America, the music of erstwhile European communist states, those of the dancehalls from Jamaica and Soca from Trinidad. Writing and singing songs in English created his success additional rare and distinctive within the context of the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, often even discotheque music scene that was widespread within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.

              His compositions in English, reflective life and socio-political happenings in India with which each and every Indian might determine, became widespread mostly with the growing, English-educated, Indian socio-economic class. His Hindi pop/rock and film songs became instant hits with the Indian plenty, earning him Gold, atomic number 78 and Double atomic number 78 Discs. a preferred stage performing artist in India, he has conjointly taken half in several music festivals round the world. He has performed with international names like Jethro Tull, junction rectifier Zeppelin and Queen, to call many.

              He currently writes and sings his songs in 5 totally different languages: English, Hindi, French, Portuguese and Konkani.

Life 

             Remo Fernandes was born to the well-known Panjim family of Bernardo and Luiza Fernandes on eight might 1953. though said in an exceedingly Catholic family, Remo says 'When I turned eighteen, I started thinking for myself; and that i realized that god is on the far side faith.' Remo's initial introduction to rock was at the age of seven, once a relation came back from London with "Rock round the Clock", a record by rock star & His Comets. He claims that it modified his life forever. 

           In school Remo developed natural stringed instrument taking part in skills and at the side of a proficient cluster of friends, Alexandre Rosario, Tony Godinho, and Caetano Abreu, shaped a college band named the "The Beat 4". He wrote his initial songs around now, at age 14, winning first prizes in all-Goa competitions for best musician, best musician, and best lead instrumentalist. when graduating from faculty Remo went on to earn a degree in design from the town of urban center (now known as Mumbai). His romance with music continued ,usually bunking categories to figure on his technique, once he discovered the way to tune and play the stringed instrument to form it sound just like the Indian stringed instrument. He continued writing his own songs, taking part in solo or fidgeting with totally different bands as well as one in all India's prime most recording artists, 'The Savages'.

             Mumbai being one in all the few cities in India at the time with a distinct segment audience for popular music genre, he contend in concerts and venues like Shanmukhnanda Hall, Rang Bhavan, and altogether the key faculty campuses of city. whereas most young Indian musicians were happy sounding precisely like their yank heroes, Remo brought associate degree Indian component to his music together with his Sitar/Guitar, and tutored himself to play the Indian flute.

Career

            After breaking out together with his initial hit album "Pack That Smack" in 1986 and "Bombay City" consecutive year, he became the highest-selling English rock musician of India and therefore the just one within the country to be awarded Gold Discs during this class. "Pack That Smack" became his initial album to be discharged by a national company, CBS. This was associate degree anti-drugs themed album, particularly against addiction to diacetylmorphine that contained songs like Down with Brown, just a ahippie, likewise as socio-political humor like man Minister - a nursery rhyme-styled song on politician who visited sleep once elective to power; and so Wie Du - a recording of associate degree victory live performance. Mumbai town contained hits like Ocean Queen, Against you/Against Maine, and a screaming war the condition of telephone services of India, lyric to Graham Bell.

            Around now, invited to attend international music festivals and concerts, Remo once more started traveling round the world. His 1st international event was at the Dresden International Song Competition in former East Germany that attracted competitors from socialist and communist countries. There he won 3 awards, the Press Critics Award, the Audience Favorite Award, and therefore the overall Second Prize. He once diagrammatic Bharat, once it had been invited, within the Tokyo Music Festival. He conjointly took half within the Festival of India within the USSR, the MIDEM '96 Music Festival in Hong Kong, besides Festivals in Germany, Bulgaria, Macau, Seychelles and Mauritius. As a stage performing artist he has by currently been to each continent round the world.
             Although his currently legendary composition Jalwa of the 1987 hit film created him instantly noted in India, he resisted the urge to affix the business Hindi film music trade regular, as he felt that he would have to be compelled to compromise his inventive values by doing thus, and he felt that his main body of labor have to be compelled to be his own songs written out of his own personal experiences, not songs commissioned for film things. 

Awards 

2007 : Karmaveer Puraskaar Noble Laureates 

2007 : Padma Shri