A popular stage performer in India, he has also taken part in many music festivals around the world. His Hindi pop/rock and film songs became instant hits with the Indian masses, earning him Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum Discs. His compositions in English, reflecting life and socio-political happenings in India with which every Indian could identify. Writing and singing songs in English made his success more rare and distinctive in the context of the Bollywood-dominated, Hindi language-based, occasionally even disco music scene that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Such influences include Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music (from Mauritius and Seychelles), African music, Latin music (from Spain and South America), the music of erstwhile European communist states, those of the dance halls from Jamaica and Soca (from Trinidad and Tobago). His musical work is a fusion of many different cultures and styles that he has been exposed to as a child in Goa and in his later travels around the world. Known as a pioneer of Indian pop music, he performs pop/ rock/ Indian fusion and is also a film playback singer. Luís Remo de Maria Bernardo Fernandes (born ) is a singer and musician from India with naturalized Portuguese citizenship.
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