A M U රාජ්
3 songs performed
A.M.U. Raj (also written A M U Raj) is a Sri Lankan playback singer remembered for his Buddhist devotional songs recorded during the gramophone era. He is best known for “Uthum Budun” (උතුම් බුදුන්), one of the Sinhala devotional songs still widely played during the Vesak season.
A.M.U. Raj was a vocalist whose recorded output sits within Sri Lanka’s older devotional and culturally rooted song tradition rather than its pop or film catalogues. Contemporary descriptions identify him as a veteran Tamil singer who performed in Sinhala, a common pattern among the island’s mid-century recording artists. His surviving recordings are catalogued as gramophone-era tracks, which places his work among the earlier generation of Sinhala devotional singers.
His best-documented recording is “Uthum Budun”, a Buddhist song that has remained in circulation across later compilations and reissues. Alongside it, archival song listings credit him with “Name Nodirana” and a body of devotional titles built around Buddhist and merit themes.
Because firm biographical details such as his birth year and full name are not recorded in reliable public sources, this page keeps to what can be verified from his catalogue and the recordings themselves.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by A.M.U. Raj.