Hi Freddy,
We are looking at bringing Lorna to perform here in
Washington DC, for the Goan Festival, next year.
Can you/anyone send me her contact information. btw,
she happens to be my neighbour in Mollembhatt.
Seby Mascarenhas
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> Subject: Lorna to perform in Cuncolim on May 7, 2005
> after a 3 decade gap!
>
> LORNA TO PERFORM IN CUNCOLIM ON MAY 7, 2005
> after a 3 decade gap !
>
> - by Armstrong Vaz
>
>
> Lorna, the singer has all along struck a special
> chord with her audience
> wherever she has performed. A relationship, which
> dates back to almost
> four
> decades. Lorna Cordeiro is a special breed of a
> singer who comes once in a
> while. The old and the young all wait to hear and se
> her in flesh and
> blood
> from close quarters.
>
> The Mumbai-based Saligao born Konkani singer is back
> again in Goa for the
> holiday season, specially flown in by the
> organizers, "Cuncolim Union" for
> the
> "Cuncolim Summer Nite" to perform on May 7th , 2005.
>
> Lorna spoke to Armstrong Vaz while traveling from
> Dabolim airport to her
> hotel
> in Colva.
>
> Twenty three years away from the public glare the
> nightingale of Konkani
> singing made her first public appearance in 1995 for
> the food festival at
> Miramar sending her fans into raptures.
> Simultaneously she also released
> her
> cassette "Aikat Mojo Tavo" (listen to my voice).
> That was the end of the
> a
> self imposed exile.
>
> On asked to give a head count of the number of
> albums she has lended her
> voice
> post-1995, she puts it at around 300 casettes. She
> is so much in demand
> and a
> voice which sells for the small Konkani music loving
> people.
>
> She has a hectic schedule with hordes of singers
> ever eager tp put her
> voice on
> their cassettes. "A couple of people came to know
> that I am travelling to
> Goa
> this week and having recorded a couple of songs in
> Mumbai, they now would
> be
> Goa for recording another couple of songs", she
> disclosed.
>
> Lorna the singer would not lend her voice for any
> song written by the
> music
> director or lyrics writer. "I make sure I first read
> the lines of the song
> and
> try to make whatever changes and suggestions in the
> way the song should
> be, to
> make the song stand out" .
>
> No one stand out against her experience and acumen,
> indeed she calls the
> shots.
> Being a pupil and discovery of the legendery late
> Chris perry, the pupil
> has
> learnt a few music composition tricks from the
> master musician herself.
>
> "No one can match Chris Perry, he was a class apart,
> his music
> compositions are
> there for every one to hear , we were both made for
> each other on the
> music
> field. Of all the musicians I have worked I have not
> come across a
> musician
> better than him". Lorna states with nostalgic
> memories and with a frown
> on her
> face which glows as she recalls her association with
> her discoverer.
>
> "I was basically a bar singer singing English
> numbers in the Mumbai
> hotles,
> till Chris Perry came along and took me under his
> wings. I was unsure
> about
> singing in Konkani and that too in Salcete accent as
> I was sued to the
> Bardez
> accent of Konkani. Chris perry instilled all the
> confidence in me. I never
> dreamt of reaching such dizzy heights and would not
> have never imagined
> that I
> would be Konkani singer" she recalls in a
> emotionally choked voice.
>
> Lorna has mesmired audiences with her melodious
> voices in Sorgar Rajan'n (
> In
> heaven), Calangute, Bebdo (drunkard), Lisbao, to
> name a few of her songs
> of the
> 60's and 70's.
>
> Ask her to list her favourite all time songs she
> says she is a deeply
> emotional
> person and songs which take her closer to the
> audience and struck an
> emotional
> chord with her audience are her favourite songs.
>
> Recently back from tours of Portugal, England,
> Kuwait and Dubai, she was
> deeply
> touched by the tremendous response she and her
> troupe got in England.
> "Initially we had planned to hold three shows but we
> had to perform
> another two
> shows. All the shows were packed to capacity".
>
> "All of us, Ben Evanglisto, Norman Cardozo and
> Domnic have been invited
> again
> to perform next year in England, besides invitation
> has also come in from
> people in America for a performance in USA".
>
> She also traveled to Portugal and was fortunate to
> play to a select
> audience
> hand picked by the President of Portugal, for a
> party hosted by him. "It
> was a
> dream come true for me, to travel to Portugal and
> sing in that country. I
> was
> all the more fortunate to sing for the President. I
> started with my song
> "Lisboa" and then we sang two Portuguese numbers.
>
> I will travel to Dubai and Mangalore this month for
> shows in both the
> places,
> she adds. Lorna who first shot into prominence as a
> church singer as a
> young
> child opines that there are a lot of talented
> singers and musicians
> throughout
> Goa . "We need someone to push them forward and
> provide them the opening."
>
> The dream pairing of Lorna and ace singer late
> Alfred Rose did not come
> about.
> She recalls in repose to a query whether the two had
> ever sung together.
>
> On questioning why she never made any foray into
> Bollywood in singing, she
> points that "every half an hour a new singer is
> born, singers who can
> hardly
> sing. You need money and godfathers to push yourself
> in Bollywood".
>
> She then shoots back and questions: "Why is that
> our Remo is not getting
> many
> offers from Bollywood" .
>
> In Canada, Lorna has been conferred with the life
> time achievement award
> for
> her contribution to the Konkani singing.
>
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