Prutha Goa

Music is this man’s life: that is the first impression of Aurvile Rodrigues who has his own recording studio called Audio Masters, connected to his house. At the age of four he took to the drums and has been playing since then. He plays the bass guitar apart from the drums but his chief preoccupation is his recording studio. Aurvile sings too, and has sung many Konkani duets with his wife Trisca of DnT fame. He reminisces about his younger years studying in Kuwait. Aurvile’s father was employed with a radio station in Kuwait and as a boy Aurvile would help his father and this played no small role in prompting his desire to work as a sound engineer. He says, ‘There I learned to put spools…in the old days they had spools for recording. Now everything is computerised. I always had this thing about going to the studio and sitting down with the announcers.’ After the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, Aurvile came back to Goa with his family and has been playing professionally in bands ever s

Denzil Pereira and Trisca Fernandes form the well-known musical duo, DnT. They come from unlikely educational backgrounds, so far removed from the world of melody that it is quite surprising that they have anything to do with music at all. Trisca has a B.Sc. in Home Science (Food and Nutrition) and a post graduate degree in educational psychology. She has worked as a co-ordinator for an HIV based project in Chimbel. Later she was part of Sangath as a research officer dealing with adolescent behaviour. Trisca has also worked as a sexuality trainer besides engaging dyslexic children and children with ADHD in constructive activity. Denzil has completed courses in hotel management and the Merchant Navy, but he concedes that this was the solitary alternative offered up to him by the prevailing economic environment. Family pressure made it difficult to cultivate his innate love of music. However, the magnetic hold that melody had on him took him full circle right back to his passion. Encoura