Stanley Peiris
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Stanley Peiris | |
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| Genres | Sri Lankan music |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Saxophonist, composer, teacher |
| InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Saxophone |
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Stanley Peiris (12 June 1941 – 13 October 2002) was a Sri Lankan musician and musical composer.
Early life
Stanley Peiris was born in Kandy on 12 June 1941 and attended St. Anthony's College, Kandy. He learnt music at the Kandy M.G.C. institute and later joined the Sri Lanka Navy. He then formed a music group, Fortunes, which specialised in performing instrumental music, an innovative idea in the Sinhala pop scene.[1]
Music
His musical career spanned more than forty years and he produced over 700 albums[2] and composed scores for about 6,600 songs. Some of his popular melodies include; Lata Walpola's "Punsanda Eliyai", Milton Mallawarachchi's "Amaran Hengum", Clarence Wijewardena's "Duwa Ma Wage", Gration Amanda's "Tharu Yaye" and Nirosha Virajini's "Sigiri Geeyak Obe Hadawathe".
In 1981 he composed music for the film Saranga and then for films including Soora Saradiel and Baisikalaya.[3] Peiris was teaching at St. Anthony's College, Kandy, where Rookantha Gunathilake was one of his students. Peiris then formed Galaxy, with Gunathilake, Mahinda Bandara and Keerthi Pasqual.[4] Peiris helped composer Dinesh Subasinghe at the beginning of his music career in 2000. He has also collaborated with Pandit W. D. Amaradeva.
Selected compositions
- Script error: No such module "lang". - T. M. Jayaratne
- Hanga Gal Leney - H. R. Jothipala
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Chandrika Siriwardena
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Victor Rathnayake
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Nanda Malini
- Peda Pasi Soyala - Abeywardena Balasuriya
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Milton Mallawarachchi
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Priya Suriyasena
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Sujatha Aththanayaka
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Gratien Ananda
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Keerthi Pasquel
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Chandralekha Perera
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Niranjala Sarojini
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Raj Senivirathna
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Rookantha Gunathilake
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Clarence Wijewardena
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Sanath Nandasiri
- Script error: No such module "lang". - W. D. Amaradeva
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Nirosha Virajini
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Rohana Bogoda
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Raju Bandara
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Jayantha Disanayaka
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Athula Adhikari
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Nelu Adhikari
- Script error: No such module "lang". - Neela Wickramasinghe & Mervin Perera
Death
Peiris died from cancer on 13 October 2002, at his residence in Kandy.[5]
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