Vivienne de Silva Boralessa

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Vivienne De Silva Boralessa
Madhya Maha Vidyalaya[1]
OccupationSinger
Years active1938-2017
SpouseC.D.S. Boralessa
ChildrenUdaya, Ajith, Indrani, Devapriya, Kapila, Madhavi
ParentG.F.D. Silva · Dona Leela Sahabandu
AwardsKalabooshana Award and More
Musical career
GenresSinhala pop music
· Buddhist Music · easy listening
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
Labels

Vivienne De Silva Boralessa (

gramophone era'.[1][2][3]

Born to a family with close ties to the

Gunapala Malalasekera, S.L.B. Kapukotuwa, and B.S. Wijeyratne, becoming part of their in-house roster of live singers.[4][5] She soon became one of the most popular radio and gramophone singer in Sri Lanka
.

Vivienne De Silva was a royalty singer of

gramophone records with the full ownership of the artist music catalog
for the company.

Vivienne De Silva Boralessa was the only artist to perform at the 2500th- (1956) and 2550th (2006)

Sri Lankan Government for her services to the country's music industry.[7]

Some of Vivienne's more well-known songs include:[1][3][8][9]

She is an artist who had the good fortune to successfully engage in artistic activities until the age of radio, gramophone, cassette CD and the Internet, even at the age of eighty-seven years.

While most of Boralessa's work was recorded on gramophone, she released a

CD-based album containing her most popular tracks, entitled Sambudu Mangalle, in 2009, under Humali Records (formerly named K.B. Records) founded by her youngest son Kapila Boralessa.

Early life

Vivienne De Silva was born in 1930 to G.F. de Silva (owner/managing director of Safety Tours; a former manager at the De Zoysa Company and surveyor at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce) and D.L. Sahabandu, in British Ceylon.[1][3][10]

An

Gunapala Malalasekera, S.L.B. Kapukotuwa, and B.S. Wijeyratne, becoming part of their in-house roster of live singers.[3][10]

As a child singer at

Sunil Shantha, who visited Boralessa's home in 1946 to invite her to perform with him. Boralessa and her family accepted the offer, leading to the release of Ralle Nagenne that same year.[1][3][10]

Career

The release of Ralle Nagenne is regarded to have been the turning point in Boralessa's career, the association with an artist like Shantha contributing considerably.

C.T.[3]

Boralessa expressed a desire to enter the

songwriters that contributed to her career during this (and later) periods include:[3]

Boralessa's work was scored by some of Sri Lanka's most well-known

composers, with B.S. Perera, Victor Perera, Premasiri Khemadasa, Sanath Nandasiri and Clarence Wijewardena among them.[3] Boralessa was also signed on to the HMV label (then under the local oversight of Cargills (Ceylon)) by Gabrielle Gunaratne in 1950.[3][10][11]

Some of Vivienne's more well-known songs include:[1][3][8][9]

  • Dura Penena Thanithala (Far-seen plains)
  • Nangi nangi Rupika (Sister Rupika)
  • Nawathinna Tissa (Tissa, desist)
  • Sambudu mangalle (Blessed (Buddhist) festival)
  • Budu magula langama ewi (The Buddhist festival draws near)
  • Ma Sanghabodhi swamine (My Lord Sanghabodhi)

While most of Boralessa's work was recorded on gramophone, she released a

CD-based album containing her most popular tracks, entitled Sambudu Mangalle, in 2009.[10][12]

De Silva-Boralessa was the only artist to perform at the 2500th- (1955) and 2550th (2006)

Sri Lankan Government for her services to the country's music industry.[7]

Personal life

Vivienne de Silva-Boralessa married C.D.S. Boralessa (died. 11 March 2013) in 1953 at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo.[10][7] The two met at the wedding of Vivienne Boralessa's uncle G.R. Edward, where Boralessa had approached her as a fan of her work.[10] They had six children- Udaya, Ajith, Indrani, Devapriya, Kapila and Madhavi.[7] Kapila Boralessa is himself a member of the Sri Lankan music scene and, along with his sister Indrani, holds the rights to their mother's estate.[3][10]

Vivienne de Silva-Boralessa died on 2 April 2017 at the Sri Jayawardenepura General Hospital after a brief period of illness.[2][8][9][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "රෝහලේ ඇඳක් මත ගිලන්ව සිටින, වැඩිම බෞද්ධ ගී ගැයූ ග්‍රැමෆෝනයට පෙම් බැඳි සුමධුර හඬ" (in Sinhala). HiruFM Gossip. Asia Broadcasting Corporation Sri Lanka. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "වැඩිම බෞද්ධ ගී ගැයූ ග්‍රැමෆෝනයට පෙම් බැඳි මියුරු ගී හඬ නිහඬවෙයි" (in Sinhala). HiruFM Gossip. Asia Broadcasting Corporation Sri Lanka. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Vivienne's tuneful tale: One for the record". Dailymirror.lk. Daily Mirror Sri Lanka. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Vivienne's tuneful tale: One for the record". Dailymirror.lk. Daily Mirror Sri Lanka. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  5. ^ Dissanayake, Aditha (22 September 2010). "Keeping the past beautifully present". Dailynews.lk. Daily News Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  6. ^ a b Dissanayake, Aditha (25 May 2011). "Too good to miss". Dailynews.lk. Daily News Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d "Obituaries". Daily Mirror. Daily Mirror Sri Lanka. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  8. ^ a b c "Vivienne de Silva Boralessa no more". DailyMirror.lk. Daily Mirror Sri Lanka. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  9. ^ a b c "Vivienne de Silva Boralessa no more". DailyNews.lk. Daily News Sri Lanka. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Dissanayake, Aditha (22 September 2010). "Keeping the past beautifully present". Dailynews.lk. Daily News Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  11. ^ Devapriya, Uditha (16 November 2016). "C.T. Fernando: The Man and the Song". Dailynews.lk. Daily News Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  12. ^ "Vivienne Boralessa launches maiden CD". SundayTimes.lk. The Sunday Times Sri Lanka. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  13. ^ "Financial assistance to Vivien Boralessa". ITNnews.lk. Independent Television News. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vivienne_de_Silva_Boralessa&oldid=1187518610"