Musically precocious, Anthony quickly absorbed his father’s lessons and then, barely into his teens, went to Bombay to join his fellow Goan musicians. His father, Jose Antonio Gonsalves, was a choirmaster at Majorda’s Mãe de Deus church. The syllable “Gon” is phonetically close to “gone,” not to “lone.”Īnthony Prabhu Gonsalves was born in 1927 in the beautiful coastal village of Majorda in south Goa. Two, Kishore Kumar‘s pronunciation of “Gonsalves” even today grates on every Goan ear. His is the kind of oafish nonsense that passes for humour in India. One, I don’t find Amitabh Bachchan funny at all. Not as well known is that the opening line was Pyarelal‘s nod to his mentor, the great Goan composer and musician, Anthony Gonsalves.īefore I get to the subject of this post, let me dispose of a couple of niggles. In the 1977 movie AMAR AKBAR ANTHONY, composer Pyarelal (of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo) scored the music for the number My Name is Anthony Gonsalves that went on to become a super hit in India.
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