Merrick Fernandes

Music’s been my passion. Today, all of 24, I’ve been participating in music events since a decade. Music was in the family and so I got the right push at an early age. It started as a pastime at family functions and this soon brought out the singing talent in me. My parents encouraged me to learn the piano/ keyboard. The next natural thing to do was to join the choir at the local church, Our Lady of Victories Church in Mahim.
From crooning at family functions, I soon graduated to stage events at school and in college. It was followed by stage shows in Hindi, English and my mother tongue Konkani. Initially, these were local gigs, if I may call them that, but they did hone my music talent.
Soon, I was part of a troupe recording for a Hinglish album for the annual day of St Aloysius School, Bandra. I was also part of a group that belted out the theme song for the Navi Mumbai Marathon 2012. Somewhere along the way, an online media platform, target goa.com, and uploaded one of my links on t