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Madawala Liyanage Don Sarathchandra Priyadarshi Suriyasena Liyanage (Sinhala: ප්රියා සූරියසේන: 27 October 1944 – 24 December 2024), popularly known as Priya Suriyasena, was a Sri Lankan singer. [1]
Priyani Jayasinghe (Sinhala: ප්රියානි ජයසිංහ; 10 June 1967 – 8 July 2018) was a Sri Lankan singer and composer. [1] One of the most popular artists in Sri Lanka, [2] Jayasinghe has sung several popular songs of the Sinhala music industry including: Kandula Niwannam, Sundara Hadakata Dee and Aluth Sanda Awith.
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).
The song has been dubbed in many languages. Manoharan did a bilingual Sinhala /Tamil rendition of the song which became quite popular in Tamil Nadu , mainly due to Radio Ceylon . Ilayaraja then made a Tamil version – which had very little to do with the Sinhala version except for the refrain – for the Tamil film Avar Enakke Sontham , sung ...
Sinhala Sujatha is a 1953 Sri Lankan romantic musical film based on the Bollywood film Bari Behen . [ 1 ] It was the most successful Sri Lankan film made up to that time.
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]
Tennakoon Mudiyanselage Jayaratne, commonly known as T. M. Jayaratne (Sinhala: ටි. එම්. ජයරත්න), born 13 April 1944 in Dodanwala, Sri Lanka is a popular Sri Lankan vocalist and a violinist. He has received the Presidential Award of Sri Lanka in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1987. [1]
Ranasinghe's uncle Asoka Pieris was a well known dramatist, and he came under his influence and through that got to showcase his talent over the airwaves. [2] At a very young age, Ranasinghe wrote Buddhist songs to the Lama Mandapaya, a program on Radio Ceylon hosted by Karunaratne Abeysekera. [3]