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"Sri Lanka Thaaye", the Tamil version of the Sri Lankan national anthem, is an exact translation of "Sri Lanka Matha", the Sinhala version, and has the same music. [27] Although it has existed since independence in 1948 it was generally only sung in the north and east of the country where the Tamil language predominates. [ 27 ]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ab.wikipedia.org Шри-Ланка; Usage on af.wikipedia.org Sri Lanka; Usage on ann.wikipedia.org
In 1948 Edrisinghe was selected to be a part of Lanka Gandharva Sabha's judging panel to determine the country's national anthem. [4] The winning entry, Sri Lanka Matha Pala Yasa Mahima , was a controversial selection as it was written by P. B. Elangasinha and the music was by Edrisinghe, both of whom were on the judging panel.
Umara was educated at Muslim Ladies’ College and represented Sri Lanka in three international singing competitions. [3] She and her sister Umaria won third place at the 2011 Crimea Music Fest , competing against singers from all around the world, and won first prize at the All-Island Singing Competition of Sri Lanka.
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]
Sri Lanka Matha, the national personification in the national anthem of Sri Lanka as a mother goddess. Siam Devadhiraj, the national personification of Thailand as a deity. Vande Mataram, song sung in reverence of Bharat Mata and Banga Mata. Joy Bangla; Columbia, an equivalent symbol for the United States.
K. Rani (4 September 1942 – 14 July 2018) [1] was an Indian playback singer who has sung songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali and Uzbek.Rani was the first female singer from India to sing in Sinhalese and Uzbek, and sang the national anthem of Sri Lanka (the "Sri Lanka Matha").
"Sri Lanka Matha" Anthem: "Sri Lanka Matha" The national anthem of Sri Lanka "Sri Lanka Matha" is believed to have been written by Rabindranath Tagore [5] and later composed by Ananda Samarakoon in 1940 before the island nation's independence from the British. In 1951, it became the national anthem of Sri Lanka.