Welcome Back Remo Fernandes 2020 with “when will you learn man” Click below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0C8vQFy1TA Top of Form Bottom of Form It was in 1970s and early 80s I came across Remo’s music and Goanna Postcards featuring Mario Miranda’s sketches. Being new arrivals and working all week Saturday night was party time mainly house parties just like we did in East Africa and the occasional Jacket and Tie events organised by the then respectable Goan Association (UK) that worked in partnership with our community. The host would normally cook a huge meal like we did in East Africa with guests travelling long distances to party hard, the Music Master playing recorded English music we left Kenya with memories of Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley, Swahili songs like Malaika and Mama Sophia garnished with our music by Chris Perry, Alfred and Rita Rose these were all played in vinyl or cassette tape. Having an Interest in Telecommunications the Lyrics of the song asking Graham Bell if he heard the telephone system in Goa he would jump in the well created an interest, at the time I had to agree with him. Electrical wiring in Goa today is another matter. Special ad hoc parties with close friends normally someone just returning from Goa with feni accompanied by Remo’s music kept the patriotic Goan nourished whatever age. Click below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77mTtp0Tf18 It will have been around 1984/5 at the Navy Ball in Bogmalo that Remo played at sunset under the mango tree he was indeed the master of the flute, guitar and gumot I think this was his first gig having returned to Goa from Paris. Over the years his music kept the Patriotic Goan living away from home nourished and always had a meaning. It was sad to hear him leave Goa with the song “The Goa I Used to Know” Click below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gCZNs7ZF8 Welcome Back Remo Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey England 18 April 2020
