KRISHANTHA ERANDAKA COMMENCED CAREER FROM RAJARATA SEVAYA AS A CHILD ARTISTE BLOSSOMED TO BE AN ACCLAIMED VOCALIST WHO HAD SUNG MANY HITS TO MELODIES WITH MEANIGFUL LYRICS – by Sunil Thenabadu Through lyrics of a song a message could be conveyed. All songs sung by renowned vocalist Krishantha Erandaka who had begun as a child artiste initially from the ‘Rajarata Sevaya’ Auradhapura in year 1987 at the tender age of around eight years.A native of a remote village in Anuradhapura ,father had been a clerk attached to the Insurance Corporation in a transferable service had attended to cultivation too as a farmer.Mother had been a housewife, the duo was blessed with two daughters , the siblings had been much younger. According to a revelation made by Krishantha at a television dialog music he had inherited from the parental duo who were lovers of music listening to music channels of “Rajarata Sevaya” all day .Mother has had intentions ...
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Niranjala Sarojini phenomenal vocalist, radio artiste, television host in an effervescent voyage of five decades in stardom – By Sunil Thenabadu Niranjala Sarojini Abeywardena nee Peiris hails from a rare celebrated musical family in Sri Lanka as the fourth daughter among six siblings in all to catholic parents living in Nugegoda. Sisters been elders Malkanthi, Nirmala,younger Sakuntala while she had an elder brother Kumar and younger the famous Manoj.Father Harrison Peiris a veteran journalist famous writer and poet was the Chief Editor of catholic ‘Messenger’ for three and a half decades. Mother had been strict on the siblings’ while father had been tolerable it was revealed. Both were in the habit of saying prayers every evening with the siblings, thereafter all had to sing ‘hyms’ with father playing the Button Accordion and mother playing her Japanese Mandolin ,both very well conversant in playing music instruments. The family used to sing ...
