ඇන්ටන් රොද්රිගෝ
8 songs performed
Anton Rodrigo (ඇන්ටන් රොඩ්රිගෝ) is a Sri Lankan playback and baila singer from the older era of Sinhala recorded music, remembered for narrative and devotional songs such as “Sinhala Ithihasa Pothe” and “Maha Bodhi Mule”. His recordings remain in circulation on Sinhala music archives and continue to be sought out by listeners of classic Sinhala song.
Anton Rodrigo’s surviving catalogue leans toward story songs and devotional themes drawn from Sri Lankan history and Buddhist tradition. “Sinhala Ithihasa Pothe” (සිංහල ඉතිහාස පොතේ) recounts the figure of Madduma Bandara from the pages of Sinhala history, while “Wasthuwa Illana Kashyapa Puthune” turns to the Sigiriya story of King Kashyapa. The devotional “Maha Bodhi Mule” sits alongside these as one of his better-known recordings.
Other songs in his catalogue, including the lighter “Issan Maguran” and “Ahelapolage Punchi Putha”, show the baila and folk-flavoured side of his work that ran in parallel with the more solemn material.
Lyrics-lk hosts these recordings with the Sinhala lyrics, English transliteration (Singlish), and translation, so the meaning of each song travels to a bilingual audience that the original recordings alone do not reach.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Anton Rodrigo.