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Happenings / People New video clip by Mahes Perera
To be able to get your song video telecast on RFO part of the French TV is no easy task, says Anura Jayasinghe whose latest video clip of his song Nidi Nethi Re Yame is getting airplay on RFO through TV5. "RFO is telecast in 85 countries and the song has entered the Caribbean Island Hit Parade, and I hope it will go places. In this video, the images feature new talent Buddhika Senaratne and the music track is by me, Rohan Silva the pedal steel guitarist and Nilantha Ariyaratne, the bassist", Anura informs us. He proudly claims that he was the first musician to introduce Sinhala original songs to French radio and television, and also performed at the inauguration of the Air Lanka regional office in Paris. Before he left for France, he began his musical career with the popular Sri Lankan group 'La Ceylonians' led by the veteran Noel Ranasinghe and the group was fortunate to represent Sri Lanka at the Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo in 1976, and won recognition for their performance. A member of SACEM, the French authors, composers and editors union, Anura was in Sri Lanka recently to release his new CD Sitting Pretty in the Ocean which contains fifteen original Sinhala songs including two French songs Don't Cry My Angel (Ne Pleure Pas Mon Ange) and Welcome to My Island (Bienvenue Dans Mon Ile). The other Sri Lankan songs are sung in folk and pastoral style with the music pleasant on the ear and catchy in rhythm and arrangement. The lyrics according to Anura were written by Stanley Welgampola, Marie-Lean Dardillac, who handled the French songs, and himself. The song on the DVD Nidi Nethi Re Yama is a bonus track on the CD and the disc is recommended for your CD shelf. Colours of the Indus Shaiyanne Malik a name synonymous with the Pakistan fashion world will stage Colours of the Indus - a fashion extravaganza - at the Oak Room, Cinnamon Grand on Monday April 17 at 7.30 p.m. Some of Pakistan's top models will take to the ramp to display Shaiyanne's trendy and traditional designer creations. A lawyer by qualification and a designer by choice, her passion for colour, fabrics and embroideries made her abandon the humdrum of the courtroom and enter the glamourous realm of couture. Apart from her two outlets in Karachi she also has fashion houses in Dubai, Canada and New York. Her resplendent recreations of bridal and formal wear have brought her name and fame at home and abroad .Having been in the fashion industry for over a decade and a half, her exploits have led her to hold fashion shows in major cities of the world. The show is part of the Cinnamon Grand's promise of indulgence. Winner of Japanese Language Speech contest
Ayesha Madushani Fernando from Kurunegala won the all-island Japanese Language Speech contest organised by the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka and the Japanese Language Education Association of Sri Lanka, held at Sasakawa Hall in Colombo, recently. Being the winner she was selected to visit Japan for two weeks and also to participate in the Japanese Language Programme for overseas students in Japan. The awards were presented by Hiroshi Karube, Minister for the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka. Ayesha is a past pupil of Holy Family Convent Kurunegala, and is presently employed as a co-ordinator at Kanko Araliya Limited, when Japanese students visit Sri Lanka for individual English lessons. |
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