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Chris Perry goa

Chris was very loving and highly religious, quite contrary to all the rumours that have been systematically be used to defame him. “He was very religious. We had to recite the rosary at 8 pm every evening. ‘Throw out the phone’, he would say if the phone rang during the rosary. At 12 noon and at dusk we had to say the Angelus. He was a model father and always talked about music,” recalls his eldest son Giles.

Another practice that Chris religiously followed was that of compulsorily blowing his trumpet - the instrument that became his signature, from among many he had mastered. He was literally wedded to music, and the trumpet in particular, which he blew effortlessly upto the fifth octave. “His daily routine every morning as soon as he woke up was to would first smoke a cigarette, have a cup of coffee and blow his trumpet. Only then would be go for a wash. Even now when he hardly practiced seriously, he had the confidence and proved it at a number of impromptu performances - it was amazing, pure magic. His tone was so fresh and young, if you closed your eyes, it seemed like a 20-year old was playing the trumpet,” says Miles. “He always had his favorite instrument close to him. Even while he slept, the trumpet would be on one side and mummy on the other,” adds Errol.