{"id":132721,"date":"2024-03-27T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=132721"},"modified":"2024-03-28T01:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:57:33","slug":"sujatha-the-genius-female-musician-in-the-annals-of-our-history-by-sunil-thenabadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/sujatha-the-genius-female-musician-in-the-annals-of-our-history-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sujatha the genius female musician in the annals of our history – By Sunil Thenabadu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sujatha the genius female musician in the annals of our history – By Sunil Thenabadu<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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\"\"\u2018Weera\u00a0Matha\u2019\u00a0 Visharada\u00a0 Dr Sujatha Attanayake, the musical genius acclaimed as one of the most popular vocalists, commenced her pivotal career in music when she was just eight years when she sang a song at the then Radio Ceylon ,to the music\u00a0 composed by AJ Kareem.Since then she had not looked back apart from deploying diverse techniques such as Gamak, Tan, Meend, and singing styles such as Khayal, Dhruvpad, Tarana\u00a0and Dhamar\u00a0that measure their theoretical and animated values, the guiding philosophy of the inventiveness of music\u00a0 artistry. Sujatha could play many musical instruments conquering the Harmonium and Sitar, also excelling \u00a0in composing notations in quick succession.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sujatha could sing in numeral styles and languages including \u00a0Tamil and Hindi sans any clue of the slenderest Sinhalese inspiration, and when she sings a song in the North Indian classical music tradition, she is not influenced by South Indian or the Carnatic tradition of music although she is an expert in both. She had acquired the Tamil influence\u00a0 having visited India with her mother Wimala\u00a0Kantha during her younger days.\u00a0 She was Sri Lanka\u2019s \u00a0female most sought after vocalist for decades, had sung in over 350 Sinhalese films in possessing an idealistic \u2018screen voice\u2019 Her first film song was in SM Nayagam\u2019s\u00a0\u201cSohoyuro\u201d film in year 1956.In addition she had sung in 19 Tamil\u00a0films, so many light songs well over one thousand songs which have become all- time hits etched in the hearts of her over\u00a0 millions of fans scattered all over. There were fans who patronize film halls principally to hear her songs which echo film halls.She had sung\u00a0 duets with all male popular artistes During the\u00a060,70- and 80-decades\u00a0Sujatha was a\u00a0sought-after\u00a0vocalist for indoor and outdoor musical shows\u00a0and\u00a0for overseas concerts having toured almost all overseas countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n