BV39: John Fernandes: The gift of music.

• How John came to love music and dive into the industry.

• Getting hired as a musician as a kid.

• The effect of Mr. James Ambat on John’s early music life.

• The influence of environment and nurture in John’s growth as a person.

• MTV as background inspiration.

• Could anyone escape the effect of nature?

• Music as salvation. The family’s true motivation's and how they came together. Being part of something that’s bigger than you.

• We were taught “When you’re a musician, when you’re on stage, you can’t just say I'm a musician, watch and listen. You’ve gotta perfrom. You’ve gotta give. You’ve gotta show emotion. You’ve gotta feel the music. And only then can any audience connect with you.

• How a good mix of skills build a business well.

• How family stick together in business.

• “Our biggest value is authenticity. We never want to be fake. We never want to project something we are not. For whatever reason, we will not do it.”

• “We want people who follow us to want to connect with us. It’s about connection.”

• “Even if you connect with our music and you never give us a single dollar throughout our entire lives, we’re still happy to have met you, happy to have known you and happy to be with you.”

• “In my opinion the best gift you can give someone is a song.”

• “Only by truly giving out that gift you have, we will receive whatever it is that this universe has for us.”