All, I was doing some non-historical research at the Panjim Central Library this morning and this is what I learnt:
Zubin Metha was born Zerome Mendes and grew up in Salcette. As a young boy, while playing at Colva beach, he got the idea to become a conductor and took the stage name Zubin Metha. It is not well known that his first job was a bus conductor on the Vasco-Panjim route which inspired him to Philharmonic conducting. In fact, a bus conductor job inspires most to anything except bus conducting. Englebert Humperdick was born in Chicalim. His birth name was Joao but when he visited Benaulim some people called him John. To avoid any confusion and a Portuguese-English conflict, he settled on the name Englebert Humperdick which is spelt in Romi Konkani as Englebert Humperdick. He used to hang out in Vasco as a teenager where the girls ignored him, hence the song A MAN WITHOUT LOVE. Cliff Richards was born in Anjuna. His birth name was Richards Fernandes. As a young boy he played by the Anjuna cliffs (this was before greedy developers stole the sand and the cliffs collapsed). His parents used to yell out and say "Cliff, Richards" to warn him from going too close to the cliff's edge. Hence the name Cliff Richards. He often visited his summer home in Moira over the school holidays, hence the title of his new album SOMETHING'S GOIN ON. As a matter of fact, all of us know something is going on in Moira, we just dont know WHAT is going on. Mahesh Gopalnath took the Aldona ferry as a young man and like his extensive posts, his ferry ride converted into a long, meandering voyage to America where he took the name Mario Goveia upon his initiation into the white-Christian party (Republicans as Howard Dean calls them). However, his primary motivation for the name change to a nice Catholic sounding name was to confess his cyber-sins. To the non-Goans (and hidden spammers) on this list, please know that everyone is a Goan, all the world is Goa. Classified archaeological research soon to be made available under the Freedom of Information Act will show humankind originated in Goa. The Book of Genesis will show Goa was created in 6.5 days (perfection takes awhile), the rest of the imperfect world took half a day. So know you know the truth. Regards, George
