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June 2011 Issue of Xit-Koddi Newsletter for the Goans - by the Goans - of the Goans in Bahrain Is now available online. Click on the link below, bookmark and read at your leisure. https://sites.google.com/site/bahraingoans/june-2011 ________________________________ From: Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 10:42:54 PM Subject: [Goanet] "I love my xit koddi ... and Konkani" : Basilo Magno's birthday Just heard via cyberspace and Rohan of ExoticGoa [http://www.exoticgoa.co.in] that it's the birthday of Basilio Magno [[email protected]]. Rohan wrote: "Basilio Magno is a journalist-songwriter and a very close friend of mine- celebrating his 90's today. Basilio Magno has composed the first World Goa Day Anthem." SOURCE: http://on.fb.me/jJSNLr TUNE IN to Basilio Magno's "Proud to be Goan" http://www.exoticgoa.co.in/Proud2bGoan.mp3 * * * MORE ON HIS WORK: A Day in Goa (Ek Dis Goy'am) * Folk operetta in English and Konkani Basilio Magno, Frankfurt/m 1978. Songs include The Rock of Portugal, Heut ist Sontag (Sunday's A Day for Pray'r), Happy Birthday Jesus (Grüss Dich Jesus), Mog Mog Mog (Come, Love, Come), White Girl Valerie, Meu Portugal. Magno has been active on in cyberspace for quite some time now, and he is the man behind the Proud To Be A Goan [http://www.exoticgoa.co.in/Proud2bGoan.mp3] song, that has become an unofficial anthem of sorts for diaspora communities scattered across the globe. -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 [email protected] http://fn.goa-india.org Skype: fredericknoronha
