Sanny Veloo ⋆ Guitar playing alien who became a rock musician on Earth. Last spotted in Melbourne, Australia.

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One of my buddies Wayne Cheong has passed away ...

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One of my buddies Wayne Cheong has passed away from complications arising out of Covid. It has come as a shock to me and I am at a loss for words and feel very heartbroken. We were hanging out at his apartment in Singapore just 3 weeks ago. We shared so many laughs while catching up on old times from back in the day! I let him listen to all my new song recordings that were on my phone. He loved them so much he made me play them again and again and filled me with so much enthusiasm for my own music and gave me a lecture on #NFTmusic!  
Dude I can’t believe you are gone. But thank you for being such a bright light of positivity, motivation and gratitude and for always being one of the OG supporters! You will forever shine in the hearts and minds of everyone that had the pleasure of knowing you. My deepest and sincerest condolences go out to your family. It’s just so sad… but rest assured this year I am releasing all those songs I let you hear so while you’re up there in heaven, use your incredible networking skills and pull some strings for me ok? :)

There is SO MUCH about life and about gratitude we need to learn from people like Wayne… I don’t know how to put it into words… You think you understand gratitude, but then you hang out with a guy like Wayne who took cancer in his stride and saw the whole universe as half full. And he was simply so determined to help all those around him shine brighter. What an honour it was to know you brother. You are missed by so many whose lives you have helped lift up.
 Rock’N’Roll 4 Ever My Brother.
 Sanny

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“I’m not interested whether you have stood ...

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“I’m not interested whether you have stood with the great. I’m interested if you have sat with the broken.”

I came across this quote and it stopped my in tracks and made realise it was time to come back to social media after disappearing for a hot minute. In my defence, I was feeling a bit over social media, was learning how to mix my own music, then went back to Singapore to visit my mom and family over Christmas and was trying to get my next music video done while overseas.

Seeing this quote reminded of a story my father told me of Mother Teresa when she visited Singapore. Apparently government officials had planned this massive tour of the country, bringing her to all the fancy places, hotels, tourists attractions. But Mother Teresa said that she only wanted to see all their “homes for the destitute, disabled, juvenile delinquents, orphans, women’s shelters etc etc…”. Obviously the officials freaked out and my dad, who was one of the top social workers in Singapore was called to give Mother Teresa a REAL tour of the country. How beautiful is that!

I do admire people who’ve become really successful in life because it takes a tremendous amount of discipline, focus and sacrifice to get there. And good on them for doing so. I also believe that billionaires and celebrities have their place in the world. They create millions of jobs around the world and they can inspire people to achieve great things too. But let’s never lose sight that the gold that’s in your character is the most powerful measure of success no matter what anyone else or society thinks of you and your choices. I do believe in you brother, sister & non-binary!

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After wasting my life listening to Spotify ...

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After wasting my life listening to Spotify playlists and observing music trends on TikTok (because everyone else is saying that’s where music is at …) I had a listen to the new Midnight Oil album and it has utterly restored my faith in music today.

If you’ve had ENOUGH of all this pre-packaged, overly branded, lyrically mind numbing, following the trend, trying to get more streams, trying to get more views, and being ignorant to the important issues we face in the world today type of music… then I urge you to listen to this album on repeat. Your faith in music as a powerful force for positive change will not only be restored, it will make you feel like YOU can make a difference too.

This has been the most inspiring music I have heard in YEARS. It moves me to tears and it lights my soul on fire at the same time. As an immigrant living in Australia, sometimes I just observe and wonder where do I fit into this entire mess… but then music like this comes out and I feel proud that I am an Australian.

If I were a music critic, I would give this album 108 stars and every single award in the universe and make 18 Feb Midnight Oil Day and a national holiday.

Thank you @midnightoilband

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Found this at the post office today and now ...

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Found this at the post office today and now chilling on my couch engrossed in this nostalgic rock’n’roll page turner of a magazine! What are some of your fav @kissonline songs? At the moment mine are Black Diamond, Hard Luck Woman, Forever (Alive III version) and after watching the Matrix I’m digging God Gave Rock’N’Roll. My fav KISS songs change all the time like the weather in Melborune! What an incredible band!

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Rest in Power X’Ho!

I was shocked and ...

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Rest in Power X’Ho!

I was shocked and really sad to hear about the passing of Chris Ho today. He was a Singapore music icon, a DJ and a punk rock Godfather. Apparently he had been battling stomach cancer for the past couple of months. My heart, deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his mother, closest friends and family.

As a musician, I remember him as the solo artist X’Ho and for the album he released called “punkmonkhunk”. It is absolutely phenomenal, so way ahead of its time! It’s musically genre bending, poetic and incendiary and full of punk rock attitude! I’ve posted a link to the album in my bio.

As a DJ, he was the *** ONLY DJ *** at the time that was willing to play unsigned Singapore music. There are mythical stories about how Chris Ho would fight with his bosses to include Singapore music in the radio station playlists. I know that he just did not want to suck the dick of the Singapore MediaCorp corporate machine just to appease the people at the top of the food chain. Chris used to say that government should be championing Singapore music instead of trying to stop if from being played.

Chris Ho was also the first person to write about my music in the Singapore national newspaper. He gave our band Boredphucks the BEST review we ever had in a half page write up! He said that we were the “Greatest punk rock middle finger to the system to ever to come out of Singapore”. I’m chuckling about how he definitely had to argue with the editor of the Straits Times just to get those words printed. To put it into perspective, this was also a time where Singapore artists hardly ever got anything written about them in any mainstream media. For the young rocker I was from Singapore to read about his music in the national newspaper back in the day, was one of my proudest moments of my life!

I wish I had kept in touch with you Chris. I feel somewhat comforted that you are in heaven making the music you’ve always wanted to right now. Thank you Sir, for championing independent music and for being so kind to musicians, helping us open doors and for pulling us up along the way whenever you could.

Rest in power Chris,
Sanjeev “Sanny” Veloo

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One of the greatest guitar solos ever written in ...

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One of the greatest guitar solos ever written in rock music! Hotel California. Anyone wanna do the harmony bit with me? :)

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Check out my Foo Fighters Bootleg DVD of their ...

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Check out my Foo Fighters Bootleg DVD of their performance at a private Sydney Harbour show! You can’t even find this on YouTube! This is made more valueable by the fact that the pirate put the wrong band on the cover! Truly one of a kind! Also my buddy @dannyleodays who is one of the best drummers I know, can be spotted in the audience! How he found his way into this show is an Australian folklore! What’s the rarest DVD in your collection?

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It pains me to say this but my Melbourne Guitar ...

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It pains me to say this but my Melbourne Guitar Hero Jesse Valach @jkvalach is in hospital after suffering from a stroke. Jesse has been a huge inspiration to me and is by far the BEST guitarist I have ever seen in Melbourne and my favourite Melbourne guitarist.

He’s plays with so much heart, soul and melody and it blows my mind how every time he improvises a guitar solo, it sounds absolutely incredible. He just flows with music… And he sings with so much soul too! He’s like BB King meets Stevie Wonder with Islander vibes thrown in and he has a phenomenal backing as well.

I remember this one time some band invited him onstage to jam a song, and he busted out a guitar solo that blew the entire bands’ set to bits and when he stepped off everyone at the gig was like, who the hell was that?! And since that day every time I see him, I’m always asking him to give me guitar lessons and I’ve been annoying him about it ever since.

He’s won numerous blues guitar competitions, played almost everywhere multiple times, performed at blues festivals and even toured USA! And get this… he does all of this while also being a semi-professional wrestler, a truck driver and a father of three with warmth and a huge smile ALL of the time!

But right now, because he is in hospital and can’t work, he and his family needs some financial support while he recovers. So if you have the means, please support his GoFund Me campaign. Any donation will go a long way. The LINK IS IN MY BIO.

My thoughts, prayers and light are with Jesse! Get well soon Sir!

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Behind the scenes live interview and performance ...

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Behind the scenes live interview and performance on the YouTube Live show Bucket List Bands! You can watch the full interview on YouTube - LINK IN BIO

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