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Enjoy Annesly & Indrani at Sundown in Richmond – second show due to popular demand – By Lawrence Machado Sri Lankan music legends Annesly Malawana and Indrani Perera will be playing a second NSW concert at Richmond Golf Club on Sunday, October 9, the day after their sold-out sing-along and dance at Marayong. This is due to the massive demand for a second show, according to the organising Sri Lankan NSW Catholic Association. The Sing-Along and Dance At Sun Down will be staged at RiverSands, Richmond Golf Club, from 5 pm -9pm , with Annesly and Indrani set to produce a rousing encore to their Sydney visit. The duo has a very rich musical background and have captivated Sri Lankans for decades starting from the Sixties. Indrani, and her sisters Iranganie and Mallika made a name for themselves as the Three Sisters, until Mallika’s untimely death in 1980. Indranee is ...

Sep 20, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Lawrence Machado Tagged Annesly Malawana, Indrani Perera, Sri Lankan music legends

Dilhani Duwani _ Indrani Perera (Original Video) ...

May 26, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Sinhala songs Tagged Dilhani Duwani, Indrani Perera

ANIL BHARATHI UNCONQUERED EFFERVESCENT VOYAGE IN CELEBRITY FOR OVER FIVE DECADES-By SUNIL THENABADU Anil Bharathi’s signature song equally popular “ Bethlehempure” still remains the “evergreen” Christmas song for half a century.The lyrics were by a Buddhist legendary celebrated Karunaratne Abeysekera which still remains as the most popular Christmas song in the century perhaps centuries to come. Even if Anil sang this song only his name would still be etched in the hearts of all Sri Lankans not only Christians.The music of this song was by the POP music maestro Clarence and his Golden Chimes band recorded under the ‘Lotus” label one of the pioneers in records and cassettes. Anil the lanky vocalist had innate skills but not known to have hereditary affiliations to music was the lead singer which added the requisite spice to the Golden Chimes bank in the early decade of the seventies. Anil, had skill in singing ...

Jan 11, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged Bethlehempure, Chanaka Perera, Chandralekha Perera, Clarence Wijewardena, Dr.Ranjith Bolonne, Geetharani Perera, H.S.Perera and Rev. Fr. Marcelline Jayakody, Indrani Perera, K.D.K. Dharmawardana, Karunaratne Abeysekera, Lakpriya de Silva, Lal Thenabadu, Lankika Perera, Mike Gunasekara, Premakeerthi de Alwis, Priyani Jayasinghe, Priyanthi Senarathna, Vernon Perera

CLARENCE WIJEWARDENA – by Des Kelly Quarter of a century has already elapsed since we lost him. Clarence Wijewardena was, in my opinion, at the very apex of the tree of Musical Composers that Sri Lanka has ever produced, and there have been, and still are, many others. It was in 1963, just a year after I migrated to Melbourne, that I first heard his song Dilhani, just fell in love with the tune and rendition by Indrani Perera, and decided on the spot, to write an English Version to this beautiful tune which I named My Lovely Island Home. Of course, I could not record this English Version of my song without written permission from Clarence. I cannot remember where he was living at the time, but I did write him a lerter which he promptly replied, giving me his permission and thereby I went ahead and recorded ...

Dec 13, 2021 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Clarence Wijewardena, Indrani Perera, Musical Composers

Remembering a great artiste Source:Island on his 25th anniversary The late, and great Clarence Wijewardene is one artiste who will never ever be forgotten – when it comes to music. It was Clarence who revolutionised the Sinhala music scene, and it was his creations that brought into the limelight, what is now referred to as ‘Sinhala pops.’ His very first band, the Moonstones, electrified the scene with their special brand of Sinhala pops and, from that point onwards, hits after hits followed. Before long, several others decided to follow in the footsteps of Clarence and the local scene began to reverberate to his music…and style. ...

Dec 11, 2021 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Anil Bharethi, Athula Adikari, Chandani Hettiarachchi, Dezmond Rodrigo, Dhammika Bandara, Indrani Perera, Lalith Ponnamperuma, Lankika Perera, Lilanthi Karunanayake, Malawana, Malkanthi Nandasiri, Menik Chandrika, Priyankara Perera, Ranil Mallawarachchi, Rohana Siriwardana, Saman de Silva, Sanath Nandasiri, Shyami Fonseka, T. M. Jayaratna, Thisara Fernando, Tyrone Mihindukula, Vernon Perera, Walter Fernando

“SPECIAL FAVOURITES” – by Des Kelly Just for a change, (which is as good as a holiday), I have decided to feature three of my special Sinhala-Song favourites for the many thousands of eLanka members & readers, in the hope that these songs will bring back many precious memories, as music so often does, better than anything else. The first, is the rendition of Dilhani-Dhuwane’ by Indrani Perera, whose “Cover” of the superb Original Composition of the late, great Clarence Wijewardena moved me so very much when I first heard it, after migrating to Australia in 1962, I decided to write my own “English” version, titled “My Lovely Island Home”, to the tune of this beautiful Sinhalese song. What many of our readers do not know, is that not many years thereafter, Indrani came to Melbourne, to feature in a couple of shows, and ...

Feb 23, 2021 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Indrani Perera, Maxwell Gerreyn, Senaka Batagoda

MY LOVELY ISLAND HOME – By Des Kelly There are many “song-titles” resembling the above, but the true story regarding the music and lyrics to a most beautiful song, was heard by this writer, not long after I had migrated to Melbourne, with my young family, from Ceylon, in 1962. It would have been still the mid 60’s, and I really cannot recall exactly when or where I heard it. The “title” was completely different, and the song Dilhani-dhuvani was being sung by a female of Lankan origin, that I had not heard of, nevertheless, Indrani Perera sang this song so very well (it was on cassette, I think), I listened to it, many times over, and remember feeling extremely homesick for the Country we had just left for good, not because we wanted to, but because we had to. Homesickness, sadness,there’s not much difference, I can tell you. ...

Aug 26, 2018 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Clarence Wijewardena, Indrani Perera, MY LOVELY ISLAND HOME Comments 0