#yolande bavan

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching - 30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

PARTING GLANCES Bill Sherwood USA, 1986

[sivavakkiyar]

Lambert Hendricks & Bavan, an old vocalese jazz group, do Coltrane’s “Cousin Mary”. It’s great

[boricuacherry-blog]

"Much of what we think we know about Holiday, however, is questionable, and over time accounts of her life have been bent to serve some other purpose than telling her story," John Szwed wrote in his 2015 book Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth.

At least a half a dozen biographies have set about separating the fact from fiction (even her FBI file was thin, Szwed notes), leading authors to wonder why more pages weren't devoted to her songs. Pretty much all studies of Holiday have agreed that her musicianship, as revered as she remains as a singer and entertainer, was woefully underrated in her day and for decades afterward.

But however unreliable a narrator Holiday may have been [for example, her parents were never married but she claimed they were in her autobiography], all the later work bloomed from the seed she planted with Lady Sings the Blues, for which she received a $3,500 advance and 65 percent of the proceeds, to her co-author and friend William Dufty's 35 percent. The book later inspired the 1972 film of the same name, starring Diana Ross. Andra Day starred in the film The United States vs. Billie Holiday, another film about Billie.

In 1939 she was introduced to Buddy Tate, the tall elegant saxophonist from Count Basie's band, and the two became an item. But when he realized the role alcohol and marijuana played in her life he told her, "Lady, you can't get high all the time, not every day."

In 1941, with her affair behind her, Billie married a small-time drug dealer named Jimmy Monroe and subsequently gravitated to opium for her highs. That all changed when heroin began to fill a void caused by the wartime shortage of opium. For awhile she used intermittently, but then succumbed to addiction, spending vast sums of money indulging herself and her former drugs runner Joe Guy - now her new boyfriend - in monumental highs.

She would go on to have a sordid relationship of violence with John Levy, a small-time nightclub owner, followed by marriage to Louis McKay. He had convinced her to marry him so he wouldn't be forced to testify in court. He'd already been buying property with her money, and putting it in his own name. This was all interspersed with brushes with the law. Yolande Bavan, a friend of Billie's, said that McKay had once spit at her. "She seemed to always be attracted to assholes." Holiday was also open about bisexuality, and dalliances with fellow women prisoners. Two women she was rumored to have had relations with were wealthy heiress Louise Crane and Tallulah Bankhead.

At 10 she was raped by a neighbor, who ended up only serving three months in jail for the crime. But Billie was oddly enough, punished too. She was sent to the House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls, a reform school. Her street-smart ways, from being on the streets of Baltimore at a young age, was not appreciated by the nuns. One nun, Billie claimed forced her to spend the night with the body of a dead girl to teach her a lesson.

In 1928 Billie and her mother moved to Harlem, where the jazz age was flourishing at that time. Billie and her mother Sadie earned income working in a brothel. The two of them were arrested for prostitution. Billie, who was only 14, claimed to be 21. She was sent to Welfare Island just off Manhattan, and here she spent 100 days in a workhouse for vagrant adults.

In Harlem there were a group of dancers, singers and comedians who would go performing from club to club for free, performing all night long. Billie would go from table to table singing the same song, but singing the chorus differently each time, teaching herself to improvise. One night while singing at a club, a young record producer, John Hammond, walked in. He'd never heard an improvising singer like Billie. Hammond teamed her up with Benny Goodman, and an 18-year-old cut her first record. People who encountered her described her as having a "don't care" attitude and speech casually laced with profanity.

"She had enough courage to play with the music," said Maya Angelou. "The beat is insistent - it says, 'follow me' - but she managed just to hang right behind it."

It was said she was a master at using pitch intonation as an interpretive element.

"She completely flattens out the melody - maybe the wrong word - more like, distills the melody to its essential line. Really underscoring the swinging rhythm and also, the language contour, so the punchline becomes highlighted, and it becomes like a little trumpet rhythmic riff she sings it on," said one listener. "Life is lived in that space between the notes, and that's what you hear."

The late Gunther Schuller, prolific on the subject of Billie Holiday, liked to say that her voice had "the reedy timber of an English horn." She modeled her phrasing after horn players. Others say they hear her sing like a sax.

Billie's mother borrowed large amounts of money from her daughter to fund a restaurant. But her mother wouldn't return a cent. This caused a rift.

Maya Angelou was performing one day, and she started by introducing the crowd to Billie, who was in the audience. They all popped up and applauded, but Billie didn't seem to notice their applause. This was also during a time when she was deep in her addiction. "Then I began to sing," said Angelou. "I sang an old blues song - 'Baby please don't go, baby please don't go, baby please don't go...back to New Orleans, they'll feed you rice and beans, worst you ever seen, baby pleeease don't go" - I sang one verse and she screamed, 'Shut that b**ch up! Shut up! You remind me of my mother! Shut up!' And she got up and ran into the toilet. So I left the stage and went in. She said, 'You know why all those people stood up when you mentioned my name? They wanted to see a black woman who'd been in trouble for drugs. That's the only reason they look at me.'"

A month later, completely emaciated, she collapsed. One hospital wouldn't take her, but they eventually found a hospital that would and found she was having liver failure. She eventually got better, but then was arrested again for possession, but she was hospitalized until she was stabilized enough to appear in court.

In the meantime, her husband Louis McKay, visited. "I saw Louis in her room," a friend said. "He had a Bible open in his hands, and she seemed to be moribund. He was doing the Protestant ritual - 'the lord is my Shephard, I shall not want and he maketh me lie down in green pastures' - so it scared me to death, because I thought, 'oh my god, it's too late,' and eventually he slammed the Bible shut, tiptoed down the hall and left. So I waited for a minute, tiptoed into the room, and at that point Billie opened one eye... and said, 'is he gone?' And I said, 'I think so.' And she sat up in bed and said, 'You know, I always been a religious b**ch, but if that dirty motherf**cker believes in God, I'm thinking it over.'"

Another friend recounted how she refused to eat mustard, that she couldn't stand the smell. When pressed, she revealed that she had used mustard to abort her pregnancy when she was younger, saying, "And that baby was all I ever wanted." Raised as a Catholic, Billie, according to at least one biography, may have seen her inability to conceive when she was married as divine retribution for having aborted a teenage pregnancy by sitting in a bathtub full of hot water and mustard.

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La playlist de l'émission de ce jeudi matin sur Radio Campus Bruxelles entre 6h30 et 9h : Harry Partch "U.S. Highball - A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip" (A Portrait/New World Records/1955-2015) Buddy Collette Septet & Robert Sorrels "Polynesian Suite" (Polynesia/Trunk Records/1962-2019) Peter Ivers' Band (with Yolande Bavan) "Gentle Jesus" (Knight of the Blue Communion/Epic Records/1969) Dominik Steiger "Gold Vom Süden" (Ad Hoc Musi 1980-84/Tochnit Aleph/2013) Reverend Gary Davis "I Am the Light of This World" (When I Die I'll Live Again/Fantasy/1972) Ivor Cutler "One at A Time" (A Flat Man/Hoorgi House Records/1998-2008) Le Diable Dégoûtant "Complainte de la Bête" (Fleur de Chagrin/Aguirre Records/2023) Persona "Água" (Som/Black Sweat Records/1975-2021) Jacques Charlier "L’Amour dans les chansons" (Art in Another Way/Musique Plastique/198?-2022) David Chesworth "Once Upon A Time" (Industry & Leisure/B.E.F.S Records/1983) Vincent & Moi "Lonely Hearts" (1998-2002/Auto production/2002) Colin Newman "Can I Explain the Delay" (Commercial Suicide/Crammed Discs/1986) Dominique Walter "Les petits boudins" (7"/Disc'Az/1967) Gillian Hills "Tu peux" (Rock Français/Wagram Music/1961-2021) Herman's Rocket "Space Woman" (7"/Vogue/1977) Sandra Plays Electronics "Her Needs" (7"/Minimal Wave/1988-2013) Aroma di Amore "Het Gesticht" (Koude Oorlog/Onderstroom Records/1984-2022) Savages "I Am Here" (Silence Yourself/Matador Records/2013) R.E.M. "These Days" (Lifes Rich Pageant/I.R.S. Records/1986) Panda Bear & Sonic Boom "Edge of the Edge" (Reset/Domino Recording Company/2022) Ming "Chanson de la plus haute tour" (Intérieur / Extérieur/Doxa Records/2001) François de Roubaix "Dernier domicile connu" (10 ans de musique de film/Odeon Soundtracks/1970-1998) Jean Luc le Ténia "Tu es un amour" (Le meilleur chanteur français du monde/Ignatub/2002) Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 "Fogo Fogo" (Afro Baby - The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79/Soundway Records/1973-2004) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2P6BuN004/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Jazz Magazine N°86 (France) - Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan - Septembre 1962

[voidingintotheshout]

“Traveling lightly” by the Peter Ivers band from their 1969 album Knight of the blue Communion. for me, this is still the razor‘s edge of jazz. It is funky experimental and utterly unearthly. All these years later, I don’t think there’s anything else I’ve heard that’s exactly quite like it. And that baseline near the end? Fantastic. It’s my song of the day.

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Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan - One Note Samba (RCA Victor)

1963.

[garudabluffs]

Yolande Bavan and Billie Holiday

Yolande Bavan, a Sri Lankan born in Colombo in 1942                                  Click here for her official site and here for a detailed interview Bavan did with the website Jazz Wax.

Lambert,Hendricks & Bavan (replacing Annie Ross)

“...she befriended the legendary Billie Holiday while on a trip to Paris. The older woman took Bavan under her wing, giving her advice on her art. “Always tell the truth,” Holiday urged Bavan.”

READ MORE https://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com/?p=3159

Looking Back At Jazz Singer Billie Holiday's Influence On American Music                                                                                           Aug 22,  2019

“Over the years, Billie struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, and federal agents used that as an excuse to target her. One FBI memo quotes a source in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics saying, "Because of the importance of Holiday, it has been the policy of this bureau to discredit individuals of this caliber using narcotics." And there was one agent in particular who was out to get her; his name - Harry Anslinger.” + “For years, Anslinger waged a campaign against Billie Holiday - sending agents to stalk her, throwing her in jail multiple times for drug possession and even preventing her from singing in clubs. And her career took a big hit.” +++ “In 1959, after years of battling addiction and harassment from agents...HARI: She collapsed.ABDELFATAH: She was suffering from liver disease.ARABLOUEI: Billie was taken to the hospital.HARI: But she said to her friend on the way in that Anslinger wasn't finished with her. She said, they're going to kill me in there. Don't let them. She wasn't wrong. Anslinger's men come into the hospital and arrest her on her hospital bed.ABDELFATAH: In a matter of weeks, Billie died.HARI: Billie Holiday had a friend called Yolande Bavan, who was a very young jazz singer. She called Yolande her daughter. And I said to Yolande, what would you say to Billie Holiday if you could speak to her now? And she told me how Billie Holiday, right at the end, thought that Anslinger had destroyed her, that no one would remember her. And she said, I'd say to her, Billie, this morning I went into Whole Foods in Columbus Circle, and they were playing your songs. Nobody forgot you, baby.“

If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday  2002                         

[ibrithir-was-here]

Still need to do a few more princesses to finish up my Historically Accurate series, but thought I'd get started on a new project as well:

Deleted Disney, show casing Concepts and Characters that didn't make it into the actual movies, but may have found there way into other lesser known Disney properties along the way

Starting with The One That Started It All, we have the Good King and First Queen, the parents of Snow White. The Queen made her debut in the opening page a 1938 storybook tie in to the movie, and has shown up sporadically in various reprints of the story.

The King was first shown in the 1979 Snow White musical featured at the Radio City Music Hall, where he was portrayed by actor Thomas Ruisinger. In a notable departure from the movie, the king remains alive during the events of the story, and welcomes Snow White home at the end

Next up is the villainous Lady Luna, the wicked right hand of the Evil Queen, who also appeared in the Radio City Music Hall production, portrayed by actress Yolande Bavan.

And finally we have the Evil Queen Grimhilde herself. While she clearly is present in the film, there was a scrapped story concept pitched in the early years of Disney's direct to home video sequal craze for a Snow White prequal, in which a young evil queen calling herself Narcissa is taken in and befriended by the younger dwarfs, claiming to be on the run from an evil wizard. This friendship however is only a ruse in order for Narcussa to steal the dwarfs magic and trap the Evil wizard (her father) inside of a magic mirror in order to take his power for herself. Trying to tie in this concept of an Anti-Snow White I based the image above on actual Snow White concept art

(Interestingly enough Disney's Enchanted started out as an idea for a Snow White Sequal, and the name of the Evil Queen was slightly altered from this similar concept)

[onenakedfarmer]

Watching

PARTING GLANCES Bill Sherwood USA, 1986

[kitchenlegrecords]

Online the podcast of the episode #16 of the Voodoo Beach Party!

Episode aired on Keith F'em on 05.01.21-complete setlist here:

Ash Ra Temple-"Ooze Away (Live 1973)", 1996 From "The Private Tapes Vol. 5" Manikin Records

Ashtray Navigations-"September Directory", 2011 From "Deadicated to the sensory armada" Memoirs Of An Aesthete

Bird Names-"We Toast To The Governors Hair", 2005 From "FOR THE LOVE OF ROD" Really Coastal

Bomis Prendin-"Respect The Road", 1984 From "Clear Memory" ARTIFACTS

Father Yod and the Spirit of 76-"Party Song", 1974 From "All Or Nothing At All" Higher Key Records

The George - Edwards Group-"Planets and Stars", 1977 From "38:38" Self Release

Mumbles "Holy Shit" 2020 from "Muddy Blue Butter Skies", Kitchen Leg records

Spider and the Webs "It's a Lovely Weather for Ducks" 2012, from "Demotape" CDR self released

Bikini Kill "False Start" 1996 from "Reject all americans" Kill Rock Star

Throwing Muses "That's all you wanted" 1995 from "University", 4AD

The Post Spiderhole Ensemble "Precious Fragments" 2020 from "False Alarms and Excess Baggage", Kitchen Leg records

The Flaming Lips "Found a star on the ground (except)" 2011 from "Strobo Trip" Lovely sorts of death records/warner bros

Peter Ivers' Band With Yolande Bavan-"Tobacco", 1969 From "Knight Of The Blue Communion" Epic

Ariel Kalma-"Sister Echo", 2014 From "An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972-1979)" Rvng Intl.

Flower Travellin' Band-"The Scientific Investigation", 1971 From "Kirikyogen" Legends Of Rock Collector Series

Mkwaju Ensemble-"Angwora Steps", 1981 From "Ki-Motion" Better Days

Richard Maxfield-"Pastoral Symphony (1960)", 1969 From "Electronic Music" Advanced Recording

Waynell Jones-"Jaybird Boogie", 1985 From "Jaybird Boogie - 7" (B-Side)" High Water Recording Company

Yuzo Iwata-"The Way Fall Came To Me", 1999 From "Drowning In The Sky" Org Records

Roy Montgomery "Down from that Hill and up to that pond" 1998 from "And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life Is Falling Down Through It", Drunken Fish records

Roy Montgomery "You always get what you deserve" 2017 from "RMHQ" Ba Da Bing records

John Cale "Fear is man's best friend" 1974 from "Fear" Island records

Siouxie and the Banshees "Suburban relapse" 1978 from the "The Scream", Polydor

100 Flowers "California's falling into the ocean" 1983 from "100 Flowers" Happy Squid records

The Rolling Stones "Moonlight mile" 1971 from "Sticky Fingers" Rolling Stones rec.

[radioeuroextasis]

It's Never Easy - Dunia Best and Aram Sinnreich

Dunia Best y Aram Sinnreich (Dunia & Aram) han estado escribiendo y tocando música juntos durante más de dos décadas, y han estado casados durante casi el mismo tiempo. Han actuado en todo el mundo como dúo y con sus bandas Dubistry y Brave New Girl. Su composición abarca una amplia gama de estilos, desde punk hasta reggae, soul, folk y jazz. "One of These Days", escrita con el tecladista Todd Nocera, fue seleccionada como finalista en el John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Su trabajo con el guitarrista Matt Urbania floreció en composiciones aclamadas por la crítica como el clásico de ska acústico "Roll Away".‎‎ ‎ ‎Dunia & Aram han colaborado con una amplia gama de artistas de todo el mundo. Juntos, han contribuido con canciones y / o actuaciones a grupos como la banda de folk tradicional Low Lily, el productor de disco Hans Nieswandt, las leyendas del post-punk Vivien Goldman y Ari-Up, la potencia del reggae King Django, la multiinstrumentista Ahmondylla Best, el griot maliense Cheick Hamala Diabate, el colectivo de música mundial Tributary Project y el supergrupo post-ska The Specialized Project. Individualmente, sus colaboradores han incluido a la banda de ska Heavensbee, el grupo post-bop The Rooftoppers y el conjunto de ska femenino Rude Girl Revue, entre otros. Su música los ha llevado del Atlántico al Pacífico, con actuaciones en todo el mundo en lugares de Japón, Alemania, el Reino Unido, en numerosos festivales y en apariciones en vivo en televisión y radio.‎‎ ‎ ‎Dunia Best ha estado tocando en múltiples instrumentos desde la infancia. Estudió técnica vocal con Yolande Bavan y percusión con Ahmondylla Best. Cuando era adolescente, actuó como cantante, flautista y percusionista off-Broadway en la producción Channel to Channel y creó un grupo a capella que actuó para los miembros del espectáculo de Broadway Sarafina. Después de una temporada con la banda de ska, The Slackers, Dunia creó la banda Agent 99 (Moon Records, Shanachie Records) con Jay Nugent, Alec Baillie y Ara Babajian. Después de la salida de Alec en 1995, Dunia contrató a Aram Sinnreich para tocar el bajo.‎ ‎Aram Sinnreich ha estado tocando música profesionalmente desde que comenzó a tocar en las calles y el metro de Nueva York cuando era adolescente a fines de la década de 1980. Después de estudiar interpretación y teoría del jazz con Anthony Braxton y Jay Hoggard en la Universidad Wesleyan, así como composición clásica en la Escuela de Música Mannes, comenzó a tocar el bajo en la escena musical del Lower East Side, actuando en lugares que van desde The Knitting Factory hasta Continental y Wetlands.‎‎ ‎ ‎Dunia & Aram formaron Brave New Girl en 1995 con el tecladista Todd Nocera (anteriormente de Thumper y Groove This), combinando sus talentos de composición multigénero para desarrollar un nuevo estilo de música que fusionó reggae, jazz y R&B, en la cúspide de la revolución neo-soul. En 2002, Dunia y Aram se mudaron a Los Ángeles y se asociaron con el guitarrista Matt Urbania (de Easy Star All-Stars y No-Shadow Kick) y el baterista Ahmed Best (de Jazzhole, Stomp y la franquicia cinematográfica Star Wars) para formar Dubistry, una nueva banda que infundió la lógica break-beat en sus raíces reggae, ska y soul. Dunia, Aram y Matt regresaron a Nueva York en 2007, donde unieron fuerzas con Nocera y grabaron varios álbumes como Dubistry y Brave New Girl mientras tocaban extensamente con ambas bandas. ‎ ‎Desde que se mudaron al área de Washington, DC en 2015, Dunia & Aram se han centrado más ampliamente en su trabajo como dúo, inaugurando su último proyecto nuevo con una serie de "Quarantunes" transmitidos en vivo desde su estudio casero durante el cierre de la pandemia de COVID-19. Comenzaron a colaborar con Hans Nieswandt en 2016 cuando grabaron el single #LetUsLive en la Folkwang Universität der Künste en Bochum, donde Aram estaba dando una conferencia sobre hip-hop y derechos de autor. Hans inmediatamente se convirtió en su nuevo socio en el crimen musical, utilizando con frecuencia tanto a Dunia & Aram para sus producciones disco (como Foot Job y Hippie Disco) y produciendo nuevos singles que escribieron y grabaron desde los Estados Unidos.‎‎ ‎ ‎Dunia & Aram grabaron su primer álbum como dúo, Bedfellows (GMO the Label, 2022), desde su estudio casero de Silver Spring, MD, colaborando con el productor Hans Nieswandt en Seúl y el ingeniero de masterización Numinos en Colonia‎ Read the full article

[julio-viernes]

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Peter Ivers fue el armonicista de la banda psicodélica Beacon Street Union y fue alabado por el mismísimo Muddy Waters como uno de los mejores que había escuchado jamás. En 1971 lanzó el LP “Knight of the Blue Communion” como Peter Ivers' Band with Yolande Bavan y un año después un rarísimo single para Epic con una versión de Marvin Gaye en la cara A y este  “Clarence O´Day” en la B, hermanísimo de los primeros Sparks.  

[jazzplusplus]

1963 - All Star Concert - Carnegie Hall (New York) :

Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks & Yolande Bavan, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer, ...

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 036: SRI LANKA]

Shout out to @kumahelps for inspiring this task! There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 90+ Sri Lankan faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite Sri Lankan faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by a Sri Lankan artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on Sri Lankan culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

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Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Note: If you’re using this masterlist for casting purposes please do further research before casting any of the following.

Ladies:

Iranganie Serasinghe (89) Sri Lankan - actress.

Maureen Hingert (80) Sri Lankan - actress, model & dancer.

Yolande Bavan (74) Sri Lankan - actress.

Yolande Bavan (74) Sri Lankan - actress & singer.

 Mignonne Fernando (73) Sri Lankan - singer. 

Nanda Malini (73) Sri Lankan - singer.

Malini Fonseka (69) Sri Lankan - actress.

Neela Wickramasinghe (66) Sri Lankan - singer & musician. 

Geetha Kumarasinghe (61) Sri Lankan - actress.

Chandralekha Perera (55) Sri Lankan - singer.

Vasanthi Chathurani (54)  Sri Lankan - actress.

Yashoda Wimaladharma (46) Sri Lankan - actress.

Dilhani Ekanayake (44) Sri Lankan - actress & model.

Nirosha Virajini (44) Sri Lankan - singer, musician & director.   

Sangeetha Weeraratne (43) Sri Lankan - actress.

Mathangi Arulpragasam (41) Tamil Sri Lankan - singer.

Damitha Abeyratne (41) Sri Lankan - actress.

Duleeka Marapana (41) Sri Lankan - actress.

Pooja Umashankar (35) Sri Lankan Sinhalese / ndian Kannadiga Brahmin - actress.

Sachini Ayendra Stanley (34) Sri Lankan - actress.

Aruni Rajapaksha (33) Sri Lankan - film actress, model & TV presenter.

Upeksha Swarnamali (32) Sri Lankan - model, actress & politician.

Nilukshi Fernando (32) Sri Lankan - actress.

Vithya Visvendra (32) Sri Lankan - makeup artist.

Linni Meister (31) Tamil Sri Lankan / German, Norwegian, possibly Scottish - model &singer.

Jacqueline Fernandez (31) Sri Lankan / of Malaysian descent - actress & model.

Gamya Wijayadasa (30) Sri Lankan - beauty pageant titleholder.

Anarkali Akarsha (29) Sri Lankan - actress, model, singer, TV Host & politician.

Gayesha Perera (29) Sri Lankan - actress, model & TV presenter.

Stephanie Siriwardhana (29) Sri Lankan / Lebanese - model.

Saheli Rochana Gamage (29) Sri Lankan - singer.   

Dinakshie Priyasad (27) Sri Lankan - actress & TV presenter.

Shalani Tharaka (26) Sri Lankan - actress, model & dancer.

Shanudrie Priyasad (19) Sri Lankan - actress, model & singer.

Yureni Noshika (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Nita Fernando (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Anoja Weerasinghe (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Swarna Mallawarachchi (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Menik Kurukulasuriya (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Veena Jayakody (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Thusitha Jayasundera (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Muthu Tharanga (?) Sri Lankan - actress & fashion model.

Sarala Kariyawasam (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Punya Heendeniya (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Kanchana Mendis (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Sheshadri Priyasad (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Sriyani Amarasena (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Poongothai Chandrahasan (?) Sri Lankan - actress.

Dulani Anuradha (?) Sri Lankan - actress & dancer.

Thushari Jayasekera (?) Sri Lankan-American - actress, performer & writer.

Thesara Jayawardane (?) Sri Lankan - actress, singer, dancer & TV presenter.

Mariazelle Goonetilleke (?) Sri Lankan - singer & musician.

Tharanga Goonetilleke (?) Sri Lankan - singer. 

Gresha Schuilling (?) Sri Lankan - singer.

Men:

Albert Moses (79) Sri Lankan - actor.

Amarasiri Kalansuriya (76) Sri Lankan - actor.

Victor Rathnayake (75) Sri Lankan - musician.

Ravindra Randeniya (70) Sri Lankan - actor.

Jackson Anthony (68) Sri Lankan - actor.

Edward Jayakody (64) Sri Lankan - singer.

Bandu Samarasinghe (61) Sri Lankan - actor.

Rangana Premaratne (58) Sri Lankan - actor, producer & TV personality.

Rookantha Gunathilake (57) Sri Lankan - singer & song-writer.

Ranjan Ramanayake (56) Sri Lankan - actor.

Kamal Addararachchi (55) Sri Lankan - actor, singer & presenter.

Lucky Dias (54) Sri Lankan - actor & producer.

Jagath Wickramasinghe (50) Sri Lankan - musician.

Chitral Somapala (50) Sri Lankan - heavy metal vocalist.

Sanjit De Silva (40) Sri Lankan - actor.   

Roshan Ranawana (36) Sri Lankan - actor, singer & model.

Guy Sebastian (35) Sri Lankan Tamil, Portuguese, English - singer.

Kasun Kalhara (35) Sri Lankan - singer & musician.

Akalanka Ganegama (35) Sri Lankan - ODI cricketer, TV presenter, dancer, actor & singer.

Pubudu Chathuranga (34) Sri Lankan - actor & writer.

Saranga Disasekara (34) Sri Lankan - actor.

Lahiru Perera (33) Sri Lankan - singer.

Thusitha Laknath (33) Sri Lankan - actor.

Menaka Rajapakse (32) Sri Lankan - actor & model.

Shihan Mihiranga Bennet (32) Sri Lankan - singer, songwriter & composer. 

Hemal Ranasinghe (32) Sri Lankan - actor, model, dancer & TV presenter.

Siva Kaneswaran (28) Sri Lankan Tamil / Irish - singer.

Tariq Hisny (26) Sri Lankan - singer.

Dasun Madushan (21) Sri Lankan - singer.

Kumar Kaneswaran (?) Sri Lankan Tamil / Irish - singer.

Cyril Wickramage (?) Sri Lankan - actor.

Roshan Ravindra (?) Sri Lankan - actor.

Channa Perera (?) Sri Lankan - actor & director.

Roshan Pilapitiya (?) Sri Lankan - actor & singer.

Suminda Sirisena (?) Sri Lankan - actor.

Suresh Joachim (?) Sri Lankan Tamil - actor & producer.

Tennison Cooray (?) Sri Lankan - film and stage actor, screenplay writer & director.

Ajith Bandara (?) Sri Lankan - singer.

Nadeeka Guruge (?) Sinhalese - singer.

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