Prutha Goa

Sky High, Goa’s home grown band, has proven just how beloved it is with it endurance through the years. After twenty years of being in the music business, the band is still going strong with most of the bandmates now in their forties. Instead of taking it easy, these passionate music lovers have the aspiration of releasing an album of their original scores. The band came together when Blasio Pinto, Aurvile Rodrigues, Collins Dias, John Sequeira and Elvis Alves met through mutual friends and discovered their shared affinity towards music. In 2014 John Sequeira left owing to ill health and Anthony Fernandes took his place. Though some of the band members have regular jobs, it does not seem to deter them from coming together for band rehearsals. ‘We manage somehow,’ says Blasio Pinto, understating the zeal these men possess for music. He continues, ‘When you like something, you make time no matter what.’ It is when you see Sky High in action and watch the forty something Blasio, who is th

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