Raju Bandara a phenomenal musician to emulate dictates in peak spot in celebrity – by Sunil Thenabadu Photo source:hungama.com Behind all the songs and music that we hear, there are some untold stories. Stories of those musicians who dedicated their lives to music. Stories of each of their career paths are identified by only them, just like their palm prints. In a competitive and saturated industry like music, one needs a lot of luck to thrive. What are the qualities behind the success of famous musicians? .Raju Bandara is one who thrived in this industry for over four decades having commenced music while still a school boy at Kegalu Maha vidyalaya.In the annals of history of musical careers there had been no stable income when one start to embark upon this path.Many commence music as a passion but to transform passion into a career is a path of a struggle. ...
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MADANI MALWATHTHAGE NOBLE ERUDITE ACTRESS, IN ALL MEDIA AT PINNACLE OF CELEBRITY IN A SPARKLING VOYAGE – by Sunil Thenabadu Madani Malwaththage when young her ambition had been to be a singer and a music teacher which Madani’s father had realised her talents had sent her to the music class at Mulgampola conducted by Asoka Perera and Ananda Perera brothers duo which she remembers to date. Then at Sarasavi Uyana Maha Vidyalaya it was Sandya Jayakody was her music teacher who had taught her ‘sarigamapadanisa’, then at Kandy High school she was taught music by teacher Mangala Samarasiri Sir, where in addition to singing she was taught the violin too.She reminisces that even to date she is contact with her gurus. At home there had been a cassette recorder and a number of cassettes of Malini Bulathsinghala, Karunaratne Divulgane, Gunadasa Kapuge ,Deepika Priyadarshini Pieris which her father had bought , which ...
Between romance and revolution: Nanda Malini and Politics of Pavana-By Uditha Devapriya Source:Island Nanda Malini has a great deal to do with my being a Sri Lankan. How could one grow up here and not hear that voice? Nearly every radio station plays it every hour or so; unless you turn the radio off, you can’t escape her. Even then her voice creeps up somewhere. Ever ubiquitous, she makes herself heard in the most unpredictable moments. As with Victor Ratnayake, everything she has sung has become so embedded in our collective consciousness that we can’t ignore it. This has mostly been on account of how she has brought two diametrically opposed themes, love and politics, together. If it’s hard to talk about either without remembering a line from her songs, it’s because she’s made the transition from love to revolution so seamlessly that there’s really no other artiste from here ...
