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It was a huge success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Nihal was Sri Lanka&#8217;s leading tenor who turned international in the sixties going forward. Immigrating to Canada in the late sixties, Nihal has lived in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Warm wishes to Nihal and his wife Caroleve!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Please take a moment to listen to Nihal&#8217;s rendition of AVE MARIA sung at the famed Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto &#8211; a concert hall located downtown in the city&#8217;s entertainment district, it is home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"title\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<h1 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Nihal Fonseka &#8211; Ave Maria (J.S. Bach\/C. 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