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 ...

Saturday, April 13 marked the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, one of Sri Lanka’s main cultural holidays. Commonly known as “Avurudu” in Sinhala and as “Puthandu” or “Puththandu” in Tamil, the celebration ...

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) ...

Nine popular Sydney beaches closed suddenly. Source: AAP SBS Sinhala View Podcast Series. Follow and Subscribe ...

New data from five Australian jurisdictions have revealed the most popular baby names of 2024. And there are a few standouts. Listen to SBS Sinhala podcast for more information.

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.’ ..

The first copy of the song ‘Ran Thodu Netha Selune’ was presented to Upali Rajapaksa, who organised many Hindi music concerts in Sri Lanka including the concert of the popular Indian singer Ravi ...

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 ...