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‘Kekulu Sina’: First kids karaoke in Lanka
In a society that has little or no time for children, comes forward a young musician, Chaturanga Ranadatte to produce a cassette containing songs for children.

‘Kekulu Sina’, probably the first Sinhala children’s Karaoke audio hit the music stores last week. Side A of the audio comprises of ten kid’s songs. and Side B is the Karaoke of the same songs. Children can sing-along and practice the songs found on the other side (Side A).

The songs have been written by Kusumalatha Navaratne (she has two children’s books approved by the National Library Services Board to her credit) and Pushkara Wanniarachchi.

Music has been written by Chaturanga Ranadatte and Akhila Suren. Chaturanga incidentally is the composer of the theme song of the 14th Asian Athletics Games held in Sri Lanka and Football theme song of Sri Lanka. He has composed 15 other Sinhala original songs, which are to be released soon.

Speaking to the TV Times, Chaturanga said, he wanted to create something different and a little sophisticated from other children’s songs. ‘Lyrics are meaningful and the music is definitely not the kindergarten type,’ he said. ‘This was done as I wanted the younger generation to cultivate good taste in music and to train them to appreciate good music,’ Chaturanga concluded.

Themes of the songs are varied and touch on nature ( rain, night, butterflies ), unity etc. Vocals for the cassette were handled by Surangi Anupama, Ruchira Kurulugama, Supun Prasansitha and Anuradha. Some of the songs were already receiving airplay on Sirasa and Visira radio channels. Kekulu Sina Children’s Songs Karoke cassette is available in all leading bookshops.

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