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RUWAN KUMARA ALREADY A SHINING SINGING STAR – By Sunil Thenabadu Ruwan Kumara Ranasinghe is a native of Alapalawa a village in Peradeniya is in his late twenties has had his education at Alapalawa Maha Vidyalaya in his native village.He is the eldest of three siblings, the parents are farmers. Ruwan Kumara had shown interests to music not inherited from parents perhaps with innate talent. Though he had been beating on the desks and singing unfortunately the teachers; had not identified his talent. However his mother had noticed his talent had encouraged him to sing and rendered a huge backing.She had even taken bank loans to pursue a career recording songs and then music videos. Ruwan had studied music under musician Romesh Sugathapala also from Kandy area and studied up to Visharada level.Ruwan had a craze to listen to all types of songs and music from the radio and other ...

Sep 15, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Music and its delights source:Island Amidst the many reports of gross corruption, discussions on loans from IMF, restructuring, inflation, and the rising rates of road accidents and homicides before sinking in a sea of troubles, I was delighted to be able to listen to the Rupavahinin musical programme of the great masters of Sinhala music like Neville, MS and CT Fernandos , TM Jayaratne, Chitra/Somapala, Milton Perera and others, at noon just before retiring to enjoy my siesta. The most recent to be aired was the music of a great composer and a competent pianist, Nimal Mendis(NM). Nimal has been providing music for several local films after returning from the UK where he had been working. Some of his songs like 1,Ran tikiri sina, 2.Ganga addara, 3.Viovee sansare, 4.Aney sir mage…,have won popular acclaim. Although the program manager wanted to get the comments of listeners via SMS I was not ...

Apr 29, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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The roots of music in Sri Lanka has five primary influences ancient folk NADEEKA GURUGE GUITARIST,COMPOSER, VOCALIST, AWARD WINNING PHENOMINAL MUSIC DIRECTOR  AT THE HELM OF FAME -by SunilThenabadu   The roots of music in Sri Lanka has the primary  influences in ancient folk rituals. Hinduism religious traditions, Buddhist religious customs, the heritage of European colonisation, the antique and commercial of neighboring Indian philosophy precisely Kollywood and Bollywood cinema. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in Sri Lanka in the sixteenth century with their traditional music along with Africans to spread their own style of music called ‘baila”.The influence of both European and African traditions served to further diversify the musical roots of the contemporary Sri Lanka music.  As opposed to European classical concert music, folk music was the music of the common people. Folk music was derived from the German word “volk”, which essentially means “ the people”. Folk music ...

Mar 22, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Sawasangeetha – We Are Sri Lanka And We Stand Together by Oscar E V Fernando Sawasangeetha (SS) was a musical program initiated by the then Chairman of Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF)-H W Jayewardene QC, in 1982 continuing monthly and on occasions bi-monthly-until mid-nineties. Being a Queen’s Counsel with a penchant for many a British practice, Mr Jayewardene discussed with me what he described as ‘an initiative by SLF. I as Director Finance and a Board Member of this institute was very eager to find out more about the ‘Grand Initiative’ of this gentle giant, with whom I closely associated until his sudden demise whilst on an Indian tour. He said he was keen on introducing to our country the concept of Promenade Concerts of England-these concerts being musical performances in the 18th and 19th century pleasure Gardens of London, where the audience would stroll about while listening to the music. Realizing ...

Dec 18, 2021 Posted by In Articles, Oscar Fernando Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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