PANAJI
Goan pop-rock icon, Remo Fernandes mesmerised the audiences with both his prose and music, as he brought down the curtains on an exciting, 11th Goa arts and literature festival 2023 at the International Centre Goa in Dona Paula on Saturday evening.
In conversation with Vivek Menezes, co-curator of the festival, Remo discussed his autobiography, “Remo” by stating, “Writing one’s autobiography is like a therapy session. I would urge everyone to attempt to write about their own lives.”
In a freewheeling discussion, which ranged from his happy childhood in the pre-liberation, Portuguese era Panjim of the 1950s to his architecture studies in Mumbai, his backpacking and busking journey across Europe, his home-coming in the early 1980s and his eventful musical career, he had the audiences glued to the edge of their seats.
Recounting his earliest musical influences, Remo said that listening to a group of college students from Daman singing the popular Portuguese song, “Maria Pitache” as a school boy was clearly one of them.
