The term "Arrocha" is recent, but the music itself has existed since the mid-'70s, when admirers of Odair Jose Reginaldo Rossi Fernando Mendes and Waldick Soriano, in that it bought an electronic keyboard, began to sing the songs of their idols in bars and nightclubs in suburban areas or inland in the country.
San Fernando Valley | Fernando Botero | Fernando Alonso | San Fernando | Fernando de Noronha | San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago | Fernando de la Rúa | Sam Mendes | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Fernando Arrabal | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | Sérgio Mendes | Fernando de la Mora | San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca | San Fernando, California | Fernando Po | Fernando Perez | Fernando González | Catulle Mendès | Fernando Saunders | Fernando Hierro | Fernando Flores | Fernando Ferrer | Fernando Amorsolo | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo | San Fernando, Pampanga | Fernando Vicente | Fernando Perez (baseball) | Fernando Ortega | Fernando Meirelles |
The Mendes family descended from Fernando Mendes, a Sephardi Jew who came to England in 1662 as personal physician to Catherine of Braganza.