Origin Sri Lanka Years active 1967 – present | Name Neela Wickramasinghe Role Singer | |
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Birth name Dona Delicia Neela Wickramasinghe Born 30 March 1950 (age 74) ( 1950-03-30 ) Genres Playback singing, Sri Lankan music Occupation(s) Vocalist,teacher,composer Albums Prema Asapuwa, Sudu Muthu Rala, Ran Tikiri Sina, Paramee Dam Similar People T M Jayaratne, W D Amaradeva, Victor Rathnayake, Sunil Edirisinghe, Nanda Malini | ||
Me awanhale by neela wickramasinghe song with a story
Visharada Neela Wickramasinghe is a veteran female singer and a musician in Sri Lanka, who mainly sings in Sinhalese.
Contents
- Me awanhale by neela wickramasinghe song with a story
- Dawasak Da Ra Neela Wickramasinghe Dell Studio Season 03 29 01 2016 Episode 01
- Early life
- Music
- Solo concert
- The Mother Organization
- Support to eradication of Polio
- Awards
- References
Dawasak Da Ra - Neela Wickramasinghe @ Dell Studio Season 03 ( 29-01-2016 ) Episode 01
Early life
Wickramasinghe was the youngest daughter of Don Francis Wickramasinghe and Withanaratchige Done Yasawathie Gunasekera in Wattala. She became a victim of Polio at the age of six months. The first school she attended was Kirimatiyagara Vidyalaya. In 1954 she was admitted to Kesbewa Government private school where she first started to be involved in music. Later she went to Mampe Sri Sobhita Maha Vidyalaya. Wickramasinghe learned music under maestro Vincent Somapala and Ananda Jayasinghe. She sang her first song for the then Radio Ceylon in 1959 for a programme 'Amateur voice.' In 1967 she got the privilege to record her first song with Radio Ceylon. The song was composed by Mr. Dalton Alwis and the music was provided by Lionel Algama, "Sende ambare nisha mal yata". In 1973, she was selected as an A grade artiste on the merit of the songs sung of the research section of the SLBC. After studying North Indian Classical Music, she graduated in 1974 with a Sangeeth Visharada Degree. Wickramasinghe had a number of popular hits including duets with T. M. Jayaratne. Later, Wickramasinghe opted to become a teacher in music. After teaching in several schools she decided to retire prematurely in 1998 after a period of 23 years having had a long stint of eight years at Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo. Wickramasinghe was diagnosed with abdominal cancer in a very serious manner and survived.
Music
So far she has sung in 67 films as a playback singer and has contributed to hundreds of songs. List of songs composed by Wickramasinghe.
Solo concert
On 2012, To mark 45th anniversary of her musical career,Wickramasinghe started a solo concert named "Master Sir".
The Mother Organization
On 2002, Wickramasinghe founded a charity organisation named "The Mother" with the aim of catering to children, elders and artists who made a lifetime contribution to the field. She is the president of the organisation
Support to eradication of Polio
Wickramasinghe participated in the UNICEF Project to save the children by eradicating polio from our country in 1989. She sang a song composed for this campaign, which was heard frequently over the airwaves and T.V. channels. Her efforts helped immensely to eradicate polio through this campaign and by 2000 not a single case of polio had been recorded since.
Awards
She has won the Sarasaviya Award thrice, Presidential award, Sumathi tele award, Zonta award and Vanitha award.