The “Mr.Music” Story Desmond Kelly Star of eLanka The “Mr.Music” title came to be, as I am now the oldest-living Western-Style entertainer from “My Lovely Island Home”, as I call her. Humbly, & thanking God for HIS gifts to me, I have been “on-stage”, from the age of five, starting at the Convent of Our Lady Of Victories, in Moratuwa. There, I sang (and “acted”), for them from 1941-1944., joined St.Sebastian’s College, also in Moratuwa till ’47 when I was nine years old, had the chance to “learn” piano, but preferred to teach myself the “ukelele”, met Wally Bastiensz at the birthday party of one of my College mates, & Wally decided to teach this “sudhu-kolla”, as he called me, to sing “Baila” Wally was already a “Kossa”, much older than myself, but saw that this was what I wanted to do, just entertain people So, I played my uke ...