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Nimal Mendis

Nimal Mendis is a Sri Lankan singer and songwriter. He is one of a handful of Sri Lankan musicians to make it to the BBC television programme Top of the Pops in 1968....

is a Sri Lankan singer/songwriters who has won many awards for his music. Mendis recorded 22 songs, eight of them for the Decca Records

Decca Records

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label in London. He has written songs now regarded as classics in South Asia

South Asia

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—including ' Master Sir

Master Sir

"Master Sir" is a classic Sinhala song written by the Sri Lankan singer/songwriter, Nimal Mendis, and sang most famously by Neville Fernando of Los Caballeros. Nimal Mendis was born in Ceylon. The song was composed by Nimal Mendis and released in Sri Lanka...

' about Colonial Ceylon. His songs have been aired over BBC Radio

BBC Radio

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, Premier Radio

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(UK) and across radio stations in Europe

Europe

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in the 1960s. He appeared on BBC TV's 'Top of the Pops' program with Sandra Edema singing his composition 'Feel Like A Clown.'

"A crusader for creative and original song writing, using the Sri Lankan folk idiom, Nimal Mendis was successful in influencing many a young lyricist and music composer in acknowledging the wealth in Sri Lankan folk music and adapting it with western overtones, to bring about a new identity in music..." (Mahes Perera, writing in the Sunday Observer Sri Lanka)Source: Sunday Observer Sri Lanka

Alphabetical List of Nimal Mendis

Nimal Mendis

Nimal Mendis is a Sri Lankan singer and songwriter. He is one of a handful of Sri Lankan musicians to make it to the BBC television programme Top of the Pops in 1968....

songs.

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