Music to my ears Sohan Pieris by Patrick Ranasinghe Sohan Pieris Last waltz Sohan Pieris & The Spitfires The Way It Used To Be Sohan Pieris & The Spitfires Portrait of my love Music to my ears Sohan Pieris earliest influence was classical music which was the music of choice at home where my loving parents encouraged me, he soon realized that he was able to play anything on the piano by ear. he was actually born in Bombay in the late forties, my dad being Ceylon’s pioneer commercial airline pilot might also mention that there is a link between my birthplace and that of another singer the inimitable Englebert Humperdinck who was also born in India. We moved to Sri Lanka when he was seven years old and knew no Sinhala as he spoke only Hindi he learned Sinhalese at school at St Joseph Colombo ‘The Jetliners’ who were quite a sensation in Colombo ...