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  2. Music of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Nurthi is a stage drama that influenced by Parsi theater as a consequence of arriving the drama troupe in the latter part of the 19th century, which belonged to the Elphinstone Dramatic Company of India. Nurthi is the colloquial Sinhala form of the Sanskrit term "Nritya". The music of Nurthi was based on North Indian Music.

  3. Gerald Wickremesooriya - Wikipedia

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    Wickremesooriya popularized Sinhala pop music amongst a widely western speaking audience. He was able to recognize and pick talent and transform them into stars in the Sinhala Pop scene: Golden Chimes, [4] Mendis Foursome along with Maxwell Mendis, [5] Stanley Peiris and The Fortunes [6] and produced countless hit songs for which Sooriya is well known today.

  4. John de Silva - Wikipedia

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    De Silva was influenced by the work of C. Don Bastian (1852-1921), the creator of the ‘Nurthi’, who was also the editor of the first daily Sinhala news paper. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] De Silva wrote and produced several historical and religious plays drawing from nurti and nadagam traditions.

  5. Ananda Samarakoon - Wikipedia

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    Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon (13 January 1911 – 2 April 1962) known as Ananda Samarakoon was a Sri Lankan (Sinhalese) composer and musician. He composed the Sri Lankan national anthem "Namo Namo Matha" and is considered the father of artistic Sinhala music and founder of the modern Sri Lankan Sinhala Geeta Sahitya (Song Literature). [1]

  6. Sunil Santha - Wikipedia

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    Sunil Santha was a Sri Lankan composer, singer and lyricist. Known as the "Father of the Modern Sinhala Music" [1] He was pivotal in the development of Sinhala music and folk songs in the mid to late 1940s and early 1950s.

  7. Mohammed Gauss - Wikipedia

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    Mohammed Gauss also known as Mohamed Ghouse (Sinhala: මොහොමඩ් ගවුස්), was a Sri Lankan film music composer. His compositions for Sinhala cinema in the 1950s are credited by music critics as having been influential in developing a Sri Lankan style of film composition distinct from that of Indian films.

  8. Renée Zellweger left Hollywood for years because she was sick ...

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    Prior to her return to Hollywood in 2016, Zellweger "wrote music and studied international law." Read On The Fox News App. She also "built a house, rescued a pair of older doggies, created a ...

  9. Bilaval - Wikipedia

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    Bilaval or Bilawal (IAST: Bilāval) is a raga and the basis for the eponymous thaat (musical mode) in Hindustani classical music. Raga Bilaval is named after Veraval, Gujarat. [1] Bilaval has been the standard for North Indian music since the early 19th century. Its tonal relationships are comparable to the Western music C major scale.