Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: enjoy this music by a kapri?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1-o8zfLrw&feature=related-- RESPONSE: Thanks Gabe ...it is one of favourite youtube videos ...esp the dancers. More than likely, the singer is a Siddi descendant. Interesting how the Siddis decided to hold on to the Portuguese influence on the music ...and yet (according to some press chaps) in India ...it was rather different ...or was it. BTW: The person the song is about is Desmond Silva. You may have heard him with the Jetliners from Colombo. Well, it appears that Desmond nowadays lives in your neck of the woods. He made Baila ...famous in many parts of the world. Now even the "lankan" politicians who tried to suppress it ...are 'dancing to its tune'. Here is a video of Desmond singing an English song with a young lady whose surname might indicate that she is from our neck of the woods. cheers http://www.atapattama.com/musicvideo.php?vid=d3ab3b47d and a variation of baila ...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW0ErxBL1pU&feature=related jc
