IN THE DARK? FOLLOW THE SON

Manuel Lazaroo, known as 'Papa Joe', at the age of 77, lived a large part of his life at Kampung Portugis. "My father was born in the settlement. I had two grandparents, one Portuguese and one Dutch, my father was Portuguese, Jorge Bosco Lazaroo," he says. In the 'Portuguese Square,' there is still the "Papa Joe's Restaurant & Pub," which Manuel Lazaroo owned for years. I was a musician, I wrote my own songs. I worked with the Malaysian Government, the Malaysian Tourism sent me across the country, to sing songs in Malacca Portuguese. I sang on Macao television, on Portuguese television". Is the trip to Portugal, that unravels as an unrepeatable thing: "I was invited, eight years ago. I was invited to go to Lisbon, I sang in a fado house in Coimbra.