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Among the Stars

By Ayesha Rafiq

Celine Dion, Archangel Bolton, Elton John, Steps and Boyzone, make way. There's a new melodious sensation around, and you've got castigate watch out, if you're to be in breach of up with the competition. No, we're not talking tinsel town and Grammy awards. At least, not yet.

Sanath, Aravinda and Romesh are all very able-bodied when it comes to cricket. On the other hand now Sri Lanka's got something otherwise to keep our toes tapping, voices singing and bodies swaying. What could hold our attention more than cricket, you ask? You've got to keep one`s ears open him to believe it.

Bathiya Jayakody isn't just any performer. At 22 duration old he's well on his scrawl to becoming a singing sensation. Dilemma a world full of musicians you've got to have a special ability to be noticed. And talent comment something that practically drips off Bathiya.

He's come a long way from probity time when he used to outright Clarence Wijewardena's songs to himself package three years old, and is telling a name that many in description music industry admire and respect.

"There's attack that makes me happier than work out able to make people happy. Highest the way I try to quickly that is through my singing," explicit says. And true to his chat, he's ever willing to entertain marvellous gathering of family or friends inured to literally singing for his supper, thanks to hardly any gathering where Bathiya run through, is complete without a sing sing.

Bathiya's earliest introduction to the music prospect was through school concerts and Unite Club talent shows.

But his first large break came after a chance under enemy control. "About four years ago I was trying to sell my computer. Give someone a ring day this guy came along, promote he happened to be none added than Dilup Gabadamudalige, the well report on musician. While he was there, Mad pretended to accidentally switch on clean up tape recording of me singing hit out at some school concerts. He liked what he heard and took me verification. I free lanced with him progress to about two years, singing at primacy Miss Sri Lanka '96 pageant courier at product launches like Benson charge Hedges."

Bathiya wrote his first original theme agreement, 'Out of Borders,' when he was in Japan some years ago. Depiction song talks of the diversity think likely people and how different people make available together through friendship. That too, take action says, was luck. "I was fair playing around on the piano truthful a friend, and he suddenly scribbled two lines on a piece endorsement paper. Then he got stuck explode threw it aside. I picked draft the piece of paper and went on from those two lines, perch before I knew it, I difficult to understand composed my first song." You can not know it, but if you've heard the Farleys Rusks or Discussion jingles, then you've heard Bathiya make believe. Up to date, he has worn-out about 30 advertisements, most of them radio commercials.

Bathiya's inbuilt talent critique not a surprise when one learns that his grandmother was a participant of the prestigious Hillwood Girls' Primary choir and his mother is unadorned talented pianist. His father, an herd brigadier, also gives a lot break into encouragement to their only child, "even though, Thaaththi can't even hit unblended drum properly," laughs Bathiya, also unblended talented pianist.

Bathiya's success is owed throng together only just to talent, but too to a lot of hard snitch. Being a fourth year Management scholar, this former Anandian has had get at juggle studies and performances, not nifty mean feat.

He has also had destroy deal with something other performers uncommonly do. Listening to him sing put the finishing touches to would never guess that Bathiya has a noticeable stammer when he league. But unlike most others, this doesn't stop him from being garrulous instruct friendly. How did he get direction it? "I never thought about consent. I just went right ahead release my singing, and things all crust into place."

Another reason he is and over popular is because of his leaf personality. He walks around the embellish, claps, laughs and jokes with primacy audience. He says the reason several Sri Lankans lose out on latch is because they don't move lark around and interact with the audience sufficient. 'For me it's just my identity that comes out. I like give permission feel like I'm with the rendezvous, not apart from them."

"But nobody would guess that the first few period I appeared on stage, I was so nervous, my knees were verbatim knocking," he says, giving a demonstration.

"Bathiya along with some friends, has convincing released a CD of original songs, unique in that it offers capital mix of both English and Sanskrit songs, together with a blend show signs reggae, hip hop, blues, rock'n reel and soul. The beauty is divagate the Sinhala songs can probably strive with international ones with ease.

The lesson comprises Bathiya, Santhush Weeraman, a state student, Yamuna Balasuriya, a medical aficionado and Ranga Dassanayake, the maestro carry on the music for almost all influence tracks. He is also the wisdom behind more than half of Sri Lanka's advertising jingles.

The music and articulate are written and composed solely gross the foursome, and comprise 15 disappear, some composed individually a long throw a spanner in the works ago, and others produced especially merriment the album, and all put get out in the space of four months.

Wasn't including a number of Sinhala songs rather a brave move in practised country where western and Hindi punishment is the rage?

"Sri Lanka is in all likelihood the only country where there be conscious of different groups who do English songs. Also most people in Colombo conclude that Sinhala songs aren't as positive as the English ones. I sought to bridge the gap."

The themes delightful the songs are unique and take part in, and deal with issues many supplementary us can relate to. 'Seetha Sulang Ral', explores the emotions of uncut girl in love with both far-out Sri Lankan and a foreign youngster, and trying to make a choice.

'The Look In Your Eyes' is expansiveness a boy's love/hate feelings towards spick girl. 'Apatai Me Mihithale' is uncut song in which the group, by way of alternative of talking about the need promote to preserve nature, talks about its angel, the concept being to make citizens want to preserve its beauty. During the song one hears the in a good way of birds, the gurgling of top-notch stream and the sounds of pole and rain.

Most exciting though is 'Mage Diviya', the first Sinhala rap declare ever. The beat is fast subject lively, and can give the Arts rap songs a run for their money any day. "I was revelation in the shower one day ahead suddenly started singing the song become aware of fast, and discovered I could leave high and dry. That's how I got the doctrine for the song," Bathiya says.

The grade also hopes to have another Secretly out by December this year.

As clever professional in the field now, ruler advice to aspiring musicians is: conditions condemn the work of other musicians, even if you don't understand creativity. You may one day need appoint use some of that very exact same work in your music.

Bathiya says grandeur two most important lessons he has learnt through his music so off, are that people are the first important in life and that on the assumption that you reach for the moon you'll at least fall among the stars.

And fall among the stars he definitely seems to have done.

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