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Making music from the heart
Making waves with her recent single, Devashrie De Silva haunts audiences with ‘Sithuwili Yahane’, her third solo original. Singing since she was quite young, Devashrie attributes her powerful vocals to her musically gifted family. The exposure she gained singing for school and church whilst competing in all-island competitions (and winning them) paved the way for [...]
What To Follow
Stephanie Sansoni’s cover of Dance Monkey For her first cover of 2020, renowned Lankan singer and performer Stephanie Sansoni took on the unique sound of 2019’s viral hit Dance Monkey by Australian artist Tones and I. Since starting her YouTube channel in 2014, she has also ventured into original music. With simple musical backing, Stephanie’s [...]
Supporting youth interconnectivity among organisations
HYPE Sri Lanka held its launch and interactive stakeholder discussion recently. A youth organisation it aims to become the first youth incubator in Sri Lanka with a vision of creating youth inclusive sustainable development. Instead of helping youth empowerment from the bottom up, HYPE starts off with the top-level, aiming to connect all the youth-oriented [...]
Waste Less Arugam Bay (WLAB): Bringing solutions to the waste issue
Every little bit helps when it comes to addressing issues of waste and once in a way solutions are found that benefit a community in a beautiful way. Waste Less Arugam Bay (WLAB) is one of them. Perhaps the smallest possible waste management solution one could think of WLAB in reality is a simple channel [...]
Facebook will pay for users’ voice recordings
Facebook will pay for users’ voice recordings after it was caught listening to and transcribing private Messenger chats to improve its speech recognition software. Facebook says it will start paying users to harvest their voice data for training speech recognition software after it was caught analyzing their speech without permission last year. In a program [...]