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Senadheerage Amarasiri Peiris (Sinhala:අමරසිරි පීරිස්: born 21 July 1946) is a Sri Lankan singer. One of the most honored singers of Sri Lanka, Peiris is a well known violinist and a vocalist.
Amarasiri Kalansuriya (Sinhala: අමරසිරි කලංසූරිය; 20 September 1940 – 1 April 2023), popularly known as Kalan, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre and television. [1] Kalansuriya made his first film appearance alongside Vijaya Kumaratunga in Hanthana Kathawa.
Central Sumatra (Indonesian: Sumatera Tengah) was a province in Indonesia whose territories included present day West Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, and the Riau Islands. [3] Since 1957 this province has not been registered as an Indonesian province after it was dissolved by Ordinance-as-Act (Undang-undang Darurat) No. 19/1957 and divided into the provinces of West Sumatra, Riau and Jambi through Law ...
The Central Province (Sinhala: මධ්යම පළාත Madhyama Paḷāta, Tamil: மத்திய மாகாணம் Maddiya Mākāṇam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 5,674 km 2 and a population of 2,421,148, making it the 2nd most populated province. The city of Kandy stands as its ...
The music and English lyrics ('Banks of the River') were composed by Nimal Mendis. It was translated into Sinhala by Augustus Vinayagaratnam and was sung by Vijaya Kumaratunga, who also made his mark as a playback singer. Ganga Addara, which was the second production of Sumathi Films was set in Kandy, colonial Sri Lanka. Its plot is about a ...
Dharmaratne Brothers was an influential Sri Lankan music group, composed of the brothers Christie, Maxwell, Melroy and Ronald Dharmaratne. They were the first all family Sinhala pop group, and racked up several hits in the late '60s and early '70s.
Karunarathna Divulgane (born Herath Mudiyanselage Karunarathna) is a popular and renowned Sri Lankan vocalist, and served as the governor of the North Central Province between 2006 and 2015. He was born to a farming family who had been living for generations in Divulgane, a small village in the Kurunegala District .
In the song 'Ran Dahadiya Bindu Bindu', Amaradeva incorporated the Baila music of his hometown. His opus, however, remains the work he did with Sri Lanka's celebrated lyricist Mahagama Sekera, in exploring the contours of fusing classical Sinhala poetry with his unique musical intonation. In time, Amaradeva's music came to reflect an entire ...