Late Visharada Neela Wickremasinghe’s heavenly voice signals tonal decorated artistry If she lived she would be seventy four years old on the 30th March 2024. – By Sunil Thenabadu Image Source : hungama Late Visharada Neela Wickremasinghe’s heavenly voice signals tonal decorated artistry If she lived she would be seventy four years old on the 30th March 2024. Visharada Neela Wickremasinghe’s voice bears a signature Sri Lankan female voice, at the same time, possessing the attributes of a versatile South Asian singer, has been employed with facility in songs which music themes were derivative from diverse traits of music in equally diverse musical civilizations. Throughout her trailblazing career, Neela preserves her signature Sri Lankan female voice, principally when she sings songs with Western melodies. At such times, she is extraordinary in her ability not to be influenced by Western, Hindustani, or folk music motifs. she wanted to be faithful to the ...
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DR ROHANA WEERASINGHE HUMBLE UNASSUMING LEGENDARY MELODY KING FOR FILM, TELE DRAMA, STAGE PLAYS, THE WORD “NO’ NOT IN HIS VOCABULARY ASSIST ONE AND ALL – by Sunil Thenabadu Dr Dickmawaduge Rohana Chitrakumara Weerasinghe popularly known as Rohana Weerasinghe, lately as ‘melody master’. The Sri Lankan musician who had made the highest number of Music melodies approximately well over 5000 , after an extensive census from the SLBC, all recording studios had been made in year 2009 along with a newspaper notification, when his book ‘Gaman Magak ‘ was published, when it had revealed over 3600 ,in number in the annals of his music narration, along with his book launch he had organised a musical recital. Rohana needs absolutely no introduction having made a huge indelible unblemished dominance in the music arena for around four decades. Rohana had composed music to all popular artistes excluding HR Jothipala, JA Milton Perera, ...
LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA – by Sunil Thenabadu Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the “Nightingale of Sri Lankan music” who was along with Clarence Wijewardena and Annesley Malewana are known as the “Original Sinhala Pop Trio”. She was born in Borella ,a resident of Rajagiriya is the second of three girls in the family. Her father, Abeypala Perera was a Buddhist, mother, Muriel Perera was a Christian. She has one elder sister, Mallika and one younger sister, Iranganie. Indrani studied at Presbyterian Girls School in Regent Street., Clifford Girl’s College and later at Stafford College to study medicine having been interested to be a doctor. Indrani had been an avid reader focusing mainly on Martin Wickremasinghe’s novels. She had studied Kandyan Dancing in the school but had been following, singing mainly English songs. Her sister Mallika ...
Visharada Neela Wickremasinghe’s heavenly voice signals tonal decorated artistry passes away at the age of 71 after a week of assuming duties as the Consulate General Sri Lanka in Milan – by Sunil Thenabadu Funeral would be notified shortly Visharada Neela Wickremasinghe’s voice bears a signature Sri Lankan female voice, at the same time, possessing the attributes of a versatile South Asian singer, has been employed with facility in songs which music motifs were derived from diverse traits of music in equally diverse musical traditions. Throughout her trailblazing career, Neela preserves her signature Sri Lankan female voice, particularly when she sings songs with Western melodies. At such times, she is extraordinary in her ability not to be influenced by Western, Hindustani or folk music motifs. she wanted to be faithful to the expectation of the song and to exploit to the peak the sentimental and emotive properties of the melody, thereby, generating ...
