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Kala Bhushana Punsiri Soysa, (born 5 March as පුන්සිරි සොයිසා [Sinhala]), is a Sri Lankan singer. [2] Since the 1970s, Punsiri, also known as "The Tear of Breakup," has recorded a number of well-known songs.
Priya Suriyasena was born on 27 October 1944 to an up-country middle-class family in Nattandiya, Puttalam District.His father Jamis Appuhami was a poet, from whom he got his musical talents.
Jayaratne studied at prestigious St.Anthony's College, Kandy and Maliyadeva College in Kurunegala. [1] He was drawn into singing by the head of the Folk and Research unit at the Broadcasting Corporation C.J.S. Kulathilaka who asked him to vocalise several Sinhala folk songs that included "Gana Thel Sadun" to be broadcast over the radio. [3]
The song he wrote for a devotional song competition held in Panadura at that time was sung by Neela Wickramasinghe, who was a school girl at the time. [1] He also composed the first radio song of Sunil Edirisinghe, "Waadakayaneni". [11] His first radio song was 'Hetak Gange Sithala' composed for a 1971 simple song program for Punsiri Soysa. [4]
Desmond Anaclitus Rajiva de Silva (ඩෙස්මන්ඩ් ද සිල්වා in [Sinhala]; 13 July 1944 – 9 January 2022), popularly known as Desmond de Silva, was a Sri Lankan singer, background musician and entertainer. [1]
The song was part of a compilation put together by TNL Radio for the station's 15th anniversary. [ 8 ] Tantrum vanished without explanation shortly after the release of "Milieu," thus ending an era with one of the last of the original new millennium heavy metal bands in Sri Lanka being destroyed by the very mainstream music it set out to challenge.
At SLBC, he sang his first song, Budu Sihila Galalaa, a Bhakthi Gee composed by Sena Weerasekera. Since his life at Heywood, Peries had a close relationship with maestro Premasiri Khemadasa . [ 2 ] Khemadasa invited him to join with Sangeetha Manjariya at Maradana, where Peries participated as a violinist for a cassette recording, Pahan Tharuwa .
For the film Nedeyo in 1976, he made vocals with Latha Walpola for the song "A Rankanda Pemkanda", composed by George Leslie. [10] 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.