ITN LAKHANDA’S EXISTENCE OF 29 YEARS SALUTES SINGING QUEEN IN CONCERT ON HER 91st BIRTHDAY ‘ PEM RAJJAYE’ – By Sunil Thenabadu
Legendary singing Queen Latha Walpola celebrates her 91st Birthday on the 11th November while ITN Lakhanda perpetual existence marks 29 years on the 15th November. To commemorate these two unique milestones a musical concert’ Pem Rajjaye” is planned to be staged at the Musaeus College auditorium on the 07th November.
There are more than 350 popular song duets sung by the popular duo “Latha Dharmadasa” in the decades of 1950, 1960 and 1970’s.At this concert it has been decided to sing twenty seven songs chosen after much deliberation by the family of the legendary duo famed Mahinda Bandara and wife Dhammika Walpola.
The music compositions will befall on Mahinda Bandara who has been instrumental in contributing music to perhaps the most number of Sinhalese songs and sung most song dummy’s before recordings.
