Joe Alvares at The Bandra Base
JOE ALVARES is a Jazz / Funk / Blues / Rock Vocalist,
that is able to sing with unbridled passion in all the above-genres, with
incredible range and power.
He’s
released 2 studio albums BLACK SCORPIO
(1976)
and ALLEGIANCE (1988)He
has had a great musical journey from being one of the leading rock singers in
India in the early 70's: where he fronted bands like THE SAVGES, SKYE
and ATOMIC FOREST appeared in Musical Theatre in the enormously popular
Rock Musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar" in several roles. He has also
helped pioneer Western Pop music on national Television, on programmes like UMANG
TARANG and POP TIME, a face on Doordarshan's Western Music programmes,
which had a run for 5 long years nationally.
He
performed for the opening of the Pre Olympic Games in Delhi to a live audience
of 1, 00,000 people at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, while the whole nation watched
the live telecast.
The
90's brought a change in Joe's music, where he gradually got into R n B Funk
and Jazz
He
has performed over 400 TV Commercial jingles (like Dulux, Hero Honda, and
Coca-Cola)
Joe
Alvares is presently performing at premium Corporate Events / Launches /
Billionaire Weddings, for Presidents / Kings His recent performances
Joe Alvares started singing
at the age of 5, won rock comp in the early 70’s.
Performed with Michael
Stanton, Joe Chindamo, Christy Smith,
Allen Youngblood, and Louis Banks.
He believes Music is light, longing, passion.
Joe and his daughter Shefali
have their 1st title album together
“Mirage” with songs like
Prisoners of your own desire
and Ancient lives by Shefali, Colours of my soul, Waiting by Joe which he
covered during his performance at the Base.
He also performed his song
Lost without you, which is his 1st original number. He says it’s a
curious song, it came about when sitting on his terrace, low in moods and wanted
the company of his wife, to get some energy of her, but he didn’t know she had
a flight, she ran up to the terrace in her uniform, “I’m going to New York…”
she said. That’s when he crawled into his piano room, began to tingle with the
keys, he put on a groove that was slightly pacey the mood was manifested with
chords that suddenly started appearing, words that he was feeling at that
moment.
Joe
serenaded the crowd with jazz and rock music for over 2 hours with Floyd on
Guitar, Andrew Kanga on the Drums and Karan Joseph on the Piano on the 25th
of January at Bandra Base, a Whistling Woods International Initiative.
The
reaction of the audience was priceless as they left the gig. They were truly mesmerised.
Event covered by - The Forbidden Fruit