Musicians
See also: Goans in Hindi film music composition- António Fortunato de Figueiredo, conductor, violinist (1903–1981). Founder-director of Academia de Música (now Dept of Western Classical Music, Kala Academy), founder-director Orquestra Sinfónica de Goa (Goa Symphony Orchestra)
- Asha Bhosle, Bollywood playback singer
- Chris Perry, the king of Goan Music
- Hema Sardesai, playback singer
- Ian D'Sa, UK-born of Goan descent and guitarist of Canadian band Billy Talent
- Jitendra Abhisheki, noted Indian musician
- Kesarbai Kerkar (1892–1977)
- Khaprumama Parvatkar (1879–1953), noted ghumat and tabla player
- Kishori Amonkar, noted Indian classical singer
- Lata Mangeshkar, nightingale of India
- Icy Spicy Leoncie, an Icelandic-Indian singer and entertainer
- Lorna Cordeiro, Goa's nightingale
- Pandit Prabhakar Karekar, Indian classical singer
- Remo Fernandes, prominent Goan pop star and Bollywood playback singer
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Famous quotes containing the word musicians:
“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to appear, and they proceeded to the necessary incantations to obtain and prolong for a few instants the miracle of its evocation, Swann, who could no more see the phrase than if it belonged to an ultraviolet world ... Swann felt it as a presence, as a protective goddess and a confidante to his love, who to arrive to him ... had clothed the disguise of this sonorous appearance.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)