In the 1950s Sinhala composers and lyricists had popularised folk poetry through sarala gee, or light classical songs. In the 1960s baila had succeeded folk poetry as a popular musical form. The task ...

Al-Haj Mohideen Baig, who sang some of the most cherished, perennial popular Sinhala film songs (including Budhu Gee), wrote down the Sinhala lyrics in his mother tongue, Urdu. The multilingual ...

Although there was an early breakthrough when Shanthi Kumar directing 'Asokamala', the second Sinhala film, boldly used Mohamed Ghouse to direct the music with Amaradeva (then W. D. Albert Perera) ...

Last week, we looked at a critical evaluation of Swarna Mallawaarachi from Eric Illayapparachchi’s essay ‘The Last Face: Swarna’ from his book ‘In Search of Art.’ ..

Bringing some of the greatest Bollywood hits from the late 1900s’, Usha sang ‘Dum Maro Dum,’ ‘Piya Tu Ab To Aaja,’ a popular Punjabi folk song ‘Mera Laung Gawacha’ followed by the Sinhala popular ...

When I first heard the strains of "Manike Mage Hithe" (baby in my heart) shortly after it was uploaded on YouTube in May, I had little idea this song in Sinhala -- a language only spoken in Sri ...