Joshua Costa

Joshua has been playing keyboards and piano from the age of 8. Having studied pop keyboard very initially made him open to playing across various styles such as Pop, Rock and more recently having forayed into Jazz and Blues. Joshua plays with various bands and artists. To name a few, Colin D’Cruz and Jazz Junction, The Gerard Machado Network, Riverman Band, The Beer Puppets, retro setup The Butterfingers , & Classic Wild playing Classic Rock and some progressive rock. Off late he is also part of an interesting music project fusing bollywood classics with the elements of jazz and R&B called MaJa. His musical tastes range across Jazz, Funk and Blues to Rock n Roll and other retro stuff. He Says "I love to play anything where my creative gene gets activated and I am able to improvise and experiment. My goal is to have fun with music be it at a studio, stage or wherever !!". Perfect strangers were recently adjudged the first place winners in the Hornbill International Rock Festival 2018 held at Nagaland. Joshua has two albums of his Own (Always there and Aikya) produced by Colin D’Cruz under the JazzGoa label. He listens to a lot of variety because he believes what you hear is what comes out of you, Stuff he listens to includes Keith Jarret, Chick Corea, More recent New Age jazz artists such as Manuel Valera, Robert Glasper, and also contemporary pop such as ABBA, Carpenters, Beatles, Sting etc.
Off late Joshua has also forayed into jingles and has created a couple of sound bytes and background score for short films and ads by prestigious clients such as Govt of Goa and JC Decaux. Visit the sound cloud page to check out a few of my sound samples.
https://soundcloud.com/jazzjazznjazz
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