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Ajantha Ranasinghe was born on 30 May 1940 [5] in Thalammahara, a small village in the Kurunegala district, as the second of five siblings. His father was a doctor and his mother was both a teacher and a postmaster.
Karunaratne Abeysekera (3 June 1930 – 20 April 1983) was one of Sri Lanka's most famous Sinhala broadcasters. He was also a poet and songwriter and was widely admired for his excellent command of Sinhala. [2] Abeysekera wrote the lyrics to over 2,000 songs, a record for a lyricist in Sri Lanka.
The Sinhala Baila song Pissu Vikare (Dagena Polkatu Male) by H. R. Jothipala, Milton Perera, M. S. Fernando is a cover version of the Tamil song Dingiri Dingale (Meenachi) from the 1958 Tamil film Anbu Engey. And it was covered again in Sinhala as a folk song named Digisi/Digiri Digare (Kussiye Badu).
Mirihana Arachchige Nanda Malini Perera (Sinhala:නන්දා මාලනී: born 23 August 1943), popularly as Nanda Malini, is a Sri Lankan musician.One of the best known and most honoured singers of Sri Lanka, Malini's choice of singing themes are based on real life and social-cultural situations. [1]
"Master Sir" (Sinhala: මාස්ටර් සර්) is a Sinhala pop song written by Sri Lankan singer/songwriter Nimal Mendis for the film Kalu Diya Dhahara ("A column of black water"), in which it was performed over the title sequence by Neela Wickramasinghe.
Nalin Jayawardena (Sinhala : නලින් ජයවර්ධන) (born 18 April 1957) is a popular Sri Lankan singer and vocalist. He was the first Sri Lankan singer to release an internet based audio album in Sinhala allowing his fans from around the world to download the album free of charge. [1]
Latha Walpola was a member at 12 years old of Radio Ceylon's Choir in 1946. C.A. Fonseka, a family friend and radio dramatist, brought her to Radio Ceylon to perform in his Sarala Gee programme with his son C.D. Fonseka.
He wrote several lyrics such as Pahan Kanda (1983), Yathra (1984), Pembara lanka (1990), Madhu Badun (1994), Adaheraya (2004) and Shwetha Rathriya (2012). [7] He is an accomplished lyricist who wrote several songs for popular artists such as Nanda Malini , W.D. Amaradeva and Victor Rathnayake . [ 11 ]