{"id":83490,"date":"2022-01-06T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=83490"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:42:10","slug":"saman-lenin-the-ultimate-signature-in-folk-music-in-contemporary-generation-by-sunil-thenabadu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/saman-lenin-the-ultimate-signature-in-folk-music-in-contemporary-generation-by-sunil-thenabadu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saman Lenin the ultimate signature in Folk music in contemporary generation – by Sunil Thenabadu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saman Lenin the ultimate signature in Folk music in contemporary generation – by Sunil Thenabadu<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Photo Source:<\/span>songhub.lk,<\/a>youtube.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Sunil-Thenabadu\"The creation and adaptation of a folk song originated from ones community. The anonymity of the innovative development was considered a foremost yardstick of folk music recognition. It is believed that the origin of folk songs was created either by villages or by specialist musicians taken up by folk cultur., The repertoire of a folk community certainly included songs of a very varied origins. One of Sri Lanka\u2019s finest exponents of folk music is Visharad Saman Lenin ( Kottawa Iniyage Saman Thusitha Lenin Kumara) born on 1st May 1980 as the fifth child in a family in Kottaya In Unawatuna,Galle, is a Sri Lankan vocalist ,musician and ethno-musicologist. Had graduated from the Visual and Performing Arts University in the mid 2000 decade with a diploma in Ethno-musicology. Thereafter had served as a lecturer in the same university to teach students.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Saman Lenin has had his primary and secondary education at St.Aloysius College in Galle.He had excelled in sports having been included in the school cricket , swimming, athletic and the body-building teams.He was exceptionally talented pace bowler having skippered the Under 16 to Under 19 college teams. When Dennis Lillie held a bowling camp in Saman had been amongst the best 17 pace bowlers selected in Sri Lanka.But his destiny changed as he was equally competent in art and sculpture when he opted to pursue a career in art entering the Visual and Performing Arts university in year 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SamanDuring the tenure at the University as having had an innate talent and flair to sing folk songs had learned folk music under distinguished musicians Rohana Beddage and Saman Panapitiya.Saman instantly came to fame and recognition when he competed in the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation music reality contest \u00a0\u201cRajatha Rashmi\u201d in the year 2005 where he was adjudicated as the runner- up. With this exposure he was selected at a young age for the background singing for the film \u2018Siri Parakum\u2019 directed by legendary Somaratne Dissanayake.The song \u201cAmbaruvo\u201d sung by him from the same film has had a gigantic impact in finding a unique rare ‘screen voice’ for the silver screen to the film industry.Saman further impressed film producers and directors when contributing his voice to Professor Sunil Ariyaratne\u2019s \u201cPaththini\u201d . and Lalith Pannipitiye\u2019s film \u201cSangile\u201d. Concurrently Saman had become a sought after vocalist for Tele dramas too also been a\u00a0 vocalist for several cultural events.In year 2011 at a relatively young age was adjudicated as the \u2018best singer\u2019 in the television State awards ceremony , also won the best singers award for the serial \u201cYasa Isuru\u201d.Saman was awarded in year 2014 for the television serial \u2018Kolamba Ahasa\u2019 then in 2015 won the best Vocalist award in in Sumathi awards.<\/span><\/p>\n

When fully established and renowned commenced his musical concert \u201cSneha Warsha\u201d held at the Law Faculty auditorium in the University of Colombo.In the very same year Saman was adjudicated as the best singer at the State Music awards ceremony. In year 2016 Saman won the Best singer\u00a0 award at the state music awards, then also in the same year was awarded the \u2018Bunka \u201c award \u00a0at the Japan Friendship and Cultural Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n