{"id":102548,"date":"2022-10-25T04:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=102548"},"modified":"2022-10-25T04:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:37:46","slug":"legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u2013 <span style=\"color: #800080;\">by Sunil Thenabadu<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s64o7KqVGsk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75799 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Sunil-Thenabadu02.jpg\" alt=\"Sunil-Thenabadu\" width=\"160\" height=\"156\" \/>Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with Clarence Wijewardena and Annesley Malewana are known as the \u201cOriginal Sinhala Pop Trio\u201d. She was born in Borella ,a resident of Rajagiriya is the second of three girls in the family. Her father, Abeypala Perera was a Buddhist, mother, Muriel Perera was a Christian. She has one elder sister, Mallika and one younger sister, Iranganie. Indrani studied at Presbyterian Girls School in Regent Street., Clifford Girl\u2019s College and later at Stafford College to study medicine having been interested to be a doctor. Indrani had been an avid reader focusing mainly on Martin Wickremasinghe\u2019s novels.\u00a0She had studied Kandyan Dancing in the school but had been following, singing mainly English songs. \u00a0Her sister Mallika has been singing since 1965 when initially she was the \u2018playback singer\u2019 for the film\u00a0<em>Sama<\/em>.for which she sang the popular song \u201cWananthare\u201d.\u00a0Mallika\u00a0 and Iranganie had been fortunate to portray small roles in many films with stalwarts like Gamini Fonseka, Ananda Jayaratne ,Clarice de Silva etc also had acted in stage plays along with elder sister Mallika. Indrani had learnt dancing at Chitrasena dance institute as she had a trend for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Indrani married\u00a0 James Sri Nivasan in 1979 also involved in the music field manufacturing compact discs. \u00a0She had met him during the production of her song\u00a0\u201c<em>Ha Ha Hore Danuna\u201d<\/em>, where he was the Lotus Disc producer.\u00a0The duo has one elder daughter, Anjalie Charukeshi and one son, Pastor Nimendra Dhananjaya who studied at\u00a0 St. Thomas&#8217; Preparatory School, Kollupitiya, after that he had studied A\/L at the Royal Institute. Later in 2009, Nimendra obtained a degree in Business Studies while Anjalie too possesses a degree.Nimendra having worked as an executive had opted to become a \u2018Pastor\u201d with the prime intention of guiding many in the society. Her mother Muriel Perera had died when Indrani was\u00a0 a teenager. Father instead of marrying again had been both mother and father to the three daughters attending to all their schooling and other extracurricular activities. When elder sister Mallika excelled in singing having learnt music under WD Amaradeva younger sister Iranganie had sung in school winning awards for her singing aptitudes .Irangani from her school days had portrayed small roles in many films beginning from the film \u2018Sama\u2019 for which elder sister Mallika too had portrayed a minor role in addition to contributing songs to films. Indrani had taken part in school concerts and singing competitions, showing innate talent but not with any inherited affiliations. Indrani from her small days and even to date has been an passionate reader having been a fan of author Martyn Wickremasinghe. The two children may via hereditary affiliations has been avid readers too. The two children had been brought up leniently allowing them to take own decisions but had been closely monitered what they were doing. The books they read were checked by the parental duo had been very inquisitive to know what types of books they read also had allowed to associate with friends but has had made inquiries as to who they were. Indrani reminisced that she used to visit her daughter\u2019s school on parents day each month clad in a saree as how a mother should visit the school in the appropriate custom. The children were never given luxuries like video decks until they were adults not that the parents could ill afford , the children were allowed to enjoy with basic stuff they possessed. Her son Pastor Nimendra had sacrificed a lucrative job to become a Pastor owing to his trust and belief in order to advise those who attended church in correct paths. Both Nimendra and Anjalie could sing having inherited mothers\u2019 aptitudes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o1l9X_ZWA5k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">From a young age Indrani had preferred going to church dressed up to sing hymns. She started her singing career with the \u2018Fire Flies\u2019 in\u00a0 the band of Dalrene Suby when she was selected on listening to her singing attributes.\u00a0Not before long in 1969 but soon she was forced to join the \u201cMoonstones\u201d, Indrani sang her first song\u00a0<em>Dilhani Duwani<\/em>, which was previously voiced by\u00a0Annesley Malewena<sup><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indrani_Perera#cite_note-life-3\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indrani_Perera%23cite_note-life-3&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1666757819121000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3MalwfrrIBkXh3b_-ubgmX\">[.]<\/a><\/sup>Then she was invited to join the popular musical band The \u2018Moonstones\u2019 led by\u00a0Clarence Wijewardena\u00a0and Malewana.\u00a0One of Indrani\u2019s close friends had been Marie who was a cousin of Annesley who had lodged at her place to which dwelling Indrani had been a relentless visitor .It is Marie who had informed her that the musical group \u201cMoonstones\u201d were on the lookout for a female vocalist. Indrani\u2019s father Abeypala Perera had accompanied her to meet\u00a0 the owner of Sooriya record bar Gerald Wickremasuriya via whom she had met\u00a0 eminent musician Clarence Wijewardena In December 1969.After a voice test taped she was unanimously selected to sing the song \u201cDilhani\u201d when Indrani was still a school girl. She had affirmed that initially that her school friends had disliked her performance saying it was a slow\u00a0 number also not impressively sung. But after three months or so the song had become a \u2018hit\u2019 disproving her friends\u2019 comments when was played at the Children\u2019s\u2019 record bar.The father had taken the initiative , had formed the female vocal group the &#8220;Three Sisters&#8221;.the first of its kind in Sri Lanka. On 31 December 1969, the trio had made her first appearance at a dance show at the Hotel Taprobane with the \u2018Moonstones\u2019.Indrani knowing she had a long journey ahead had studied music under reputed Shanthi Geethadeva, Sanath Nandasiri and Ratnakumara all renowned musicians then.\u00a0Indrani had remarked that she had seen Dilhani\u00a0 only after ten years , the daughter of Sangabo Corea. Dilhani is now a close friend of hers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eycLHBwtGIw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Father had helped the trio wholeheartedly by importing sound system, TV sounds and three mikes in gold colour. The Three Sisters sang together successfully to astonish all audiences in concerts in many parts of the island for a about a decade with many popular hits until Mallika died in year 1980 following a sudden heart failure when her daughter Hiranya was only eleven months old.The daughter was brought up by her husband and mother in law as she was familiar with them .\u00a0After the death of elder sister, younger sister Iranganie and Indrani sang as a duo, but later Iranganie moved away signing as \u201cthree sisters\u201d Indrani too did not like to continue in the absence of Mallika particularly to use the name \u2018Three Sisters\u201d. Presently Iranganie is bed ridden her son Sangeeth who like Hiranya is a graduate could sing, Indrani had lamented that if the authorities could give them an opening to the duo it would be highly appreciated. Indrani had learnt Bharatha Natyam dancing at the Chitrasena dance academy also learnt Indian Ragadari music under famous musicians.\u00a0Indrani&#8217;s songs were recorded under labels\u00a0 Tharanga, Torana, Sooriya and Phillips .Beginning from the year 1969\u00a0 the Genres of music\u00a0 had been Pop ,Soul, Rhythm and Blues, Indian Classical music .The lyricists of all her songs have been the cream of lyricists viz., Karunaratne Abeysekera,Premakeerthi de Alwis,Dharmasiri Gamage,Sunil Ariyaratne. Hemasri de Alwis ,Hudson Samarasinghe etc where no flaws were detected in the lyrics\u00a0 for which there had been no objections from any quarter. The music directions had been by veteran Sarath Dassanayake,Victor Dalugama, Rocksamy, Melroy Dharmaratne, Stanley Pieris Ernest Zoysa etc., all celebrated musicians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102549\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102549 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg\" alt=\"Indrani Perera\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>image Source : hungama<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Indrani has sung subsequently several popular hits after her debut song Dilhani including,\u00a0<em>Thiline Lesin<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Wasanthaye Mal Kekulai<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Sudu Asu Pita Nagala<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kageda Gon Wassa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kumudu Mal<\/em>\u00a0,<em>Samugena Yannata\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Mathakaya Asurin<\/em>.\u00a0In 1973, she sung many songs with The Moonstones such as\u00a0<em>Sigiriya<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Ha Ha Hore<\/em>. Apart from that, she also worked as a playback singer in many films such as\u00a0<em>Podi Malli<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Dinum Kanuwa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lassana Kella<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Sadahatama Oba Mage<\/em>\u00a0,<em>Athegini Bidune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Sikuruliya<\/em>. In 1970s, she had also recorded Baila duets too with\u00a0Desmond de Silva\u00a0and Paul Fernando which were instant hits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">At a recent television dialog Indrani lamented that she had spent her own money and recorded many songs in compact discs and casettes. Some unscrupulous elements have changed music\u00a0 by adding octopods etc had even included in you tubes claiming they are theirs .If she wanted to find her own song from the you tube she has to pay and obtain which a sad state of affairs. She blames the authorities in not having a system to punish the culprits which she laments is a sad state which hurts her.She confessors it really hurts her but no action against those could be instituted as laws have not been inacted.She also had brought to light that there are so many radio Frequency Modulation channels well over fifty who play her songs and of others too for which she and others are not benefitted.\u00a0 She has a desire to see her grandchildren sing. Her son has twins \u2018Susan and Daniel\u201d still toddlers , she is hoping she would live long enough to see them sing as imitated by the\u00a0 grandchildren of Latha and Sujatha. She reminisced the good old days she reminded that it was four songs that were recorded to a CD. Then , if even one song becomes popular the disc will\u00a0 sell fast.She reminded about the talented During\u00a0 her younger days she had been a huge fan of sitarist Ravi Shanker.For the craze to learn to play the sitar she had studied under musician Lionel Algama.Indrani had also been a fan of Indian vocalist Balasubramaniam had been anxiously waiting for an opportunity to meet him in person. Indrani had toured many overseas countries like England. Australia, Italy , Japan and many other European countries with Moonstones and other musical groups. On a visit to Italy she reminisces having got an unique opportunity in meeting his eminence the POPE. Also during that historic meeting she had been fortunate to meet ace footballer Diego Maradona with the Argentine football team. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BIzuxdmYNrQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Son is Pastor Nimendra\u00a0 James a religious missionary preacher\u00a0 and\u00a0 lecturer,could also sing\u00a0 well including mother\u2019s songs. Mother was described by him in a television dialog that she as a very charitable kind person. Daughter Anjali too had been brought up having a close eye.Both\u00a0 had the freedom to take decisions,\u00a0 to read books and associate with friends. But the mother has had a close look\u00a0 on what books they read and who were their friends .Nimendra is a complete teetotaller of course other than his preaching work is also a vivid readers otto is Anjalie. As an enthusiastic mother had visited daughter\u2019s school\u2019s parents day monthly wearing sarees as a conventional mother .The children were not given luxury items they two were satisfied with what they possessed. A\u00a0 video deck was brought when only they had matured. The duo had participated in extracurricular activities like sports playing cricket with neighbouring children, music, and dancing. Nimendra added the duo enjoyed life as things came on sans aspirations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 2014, Indrani won the Soul Sounds Award for her contribution to the music industry. Then in 2015, she won an award from the National Catholic Literary Association and in 2016 by the Provincial Literary Association. In 2019, The Janabhimani or Hela Maha Rawana Rajabhimani Awards Ceremony was held at the Jasmine Auditorium at the BMICH where Indrani won the Best Service Award.Indrani is a factual human being possessing humanitarian qualities, multitude of cultures and ideologies within our living humanity been selfless. From family members and close associates of Indrani it had revealed Indrani was unselfish was willing to help anyone in distress. Late Neela Wickremasinghe had quoted in her book \u201cGee mee Saraniya\u201d that She had met Indrani\u00a0 Perera at the Radio Ceylon who had requested Neela to get into her car and driven her to Walk Rite institute in Maradana had ordered for her a pair of special expensive shoes to assist her in walking. This is ample proof of her inner heart in feeling deeply for others. Indrani\u2019s selfless attitude was spoken by son Nimendra during a television dialog saying even if they had only a kilo or raw rice at home she would donate to a needy sans any disinclination. All fans and followers would no doubt wish Indrani good health and longevity with blessings of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GnTNmtlQr-M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Image Source :\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hungama.com\/artist\/indrani-perera\/9008459\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hungama<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Sunil Thenabadu<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em><strong>email <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:sthenabadu@hotmail.com\">sthenabadu@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em><strong>WhatsApp 0061444533242\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA\u00a0\u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with Clarence Wijewardena and Annesley Malewana are known as the \u201cOriginal Sinhala Pop Trio\u201d. She was born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37869],"tags":[48823,4540,44435,33803,48821,38723,42410,48822,41011,37961,41207],"class_list":{"0":"post-102548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-sunil-thenabadu","9":"tag-annesley-malewana","10":"tag-clarence-wijewardena","11":"tag-dilhani-duwani","12":"tag-gamini-fonseka","13":"tag-indrani-perera-songs","14":"tag-lionel-algama","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-original-sinhala-pop-trio","17":"tag-sri-lankan-music","18":"tag-three-sisters","19":"tag-wd-amaradeva","20":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-25T04:37:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-25T04:37:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"175\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"175\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-25T04:37:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-25T04:37:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/\"},\"wordCount\":2101,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Annesley Malewana\",\"Clarence Wijewardena\",\"Dilhani Duwani\",\"Gamini Fonseka\",\"Indrani Perera songs\",\"LIONEL ALGAMA\",\"Music\",\"Original Sinhala Pop Trio\",\"Sri Lankan music\",\"Three Sisters\",\"WD Amaradeva\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Articles\",\"Sunil Thenabadu\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/\",\"name\":\"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu - eLanka\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-25T04:37:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-25T04:37:46+00:00\",\"description\":\"Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg\",\"width\":175,\"height\":175,\"caption\":\"Indrani Perera\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Articles\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/category\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\",\"name\":\"eLanka\",\"description\":\"eLanka - Sri lanka events in Australia\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization\",\"name\":\"eLanka\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg\",\"width\":192,\"height\":82,\"caption\":\"eLanka\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elanka\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SriLankanDownUnder\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\",\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"eLanka admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/author\/elanka\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu - eLanka","description":"Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu","og_description":"Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with","og_url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","og_site_name":"eLanka","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/","article_published_time":"2022-10-25T04:37:06+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-10-25T04:37:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":175,"height":175,"url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"eLanka admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"eLanka admin","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/"},"author":{"name":"eLanka admin","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd"},"headline":"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu","datePublished":"2022-10-25T04:37:06+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-25T04:37:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/"},"wordCount":2101,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg","keywords":["Annesley Malewana","Clarence Wijewardena","Dilhani Duwani","Gamini Fonseka","Indrani Perera songs","LIONEL ALGAMA","Music","Original Sinhala Pop Trio","Sri Lankan music","Three Sisters","WD Amaradeva"],"articleSection":["Articles","Sunil Thenabadu"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","name":"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu - eLanka","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-25T04:37:06+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-25T04:37:46+00:00","description":"Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the \u201cNightingale of Sri Lankan music\u201d who was along with","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/indrani-perera.jpg","width":175,"height":175,"caption":"Indrani Perera"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/legendary-indrani-perera-reminisced-after-six-decades-of-dominance-in-melodic-arena-by-sunil-thenabadu\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Articles","item":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/category\/articles\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#website","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/","name":"eLanka","description":"eLanka - Sri lanka events in Australia","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#organization","name":"eLanka","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/elanka-logo.jpg","width":192,"height":82,"caption":"eLanka"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elanka\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SriLankanDownUnder"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd","name":"eLanka admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e0d346a7f97b80e861cdeafe7b7de523b59f5060666f1a5da8369457bf9b6c3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"eLanka admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew"],"url":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/author\/elanka\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102551,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102548\/revisions\/102551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}