කොරීන් අල්මේදා
6 songs performed
Corrine Almeida (also written Corine Almeda or Korin Almeda, කොරින් අල්මේදා) is a Sri Lankan singer often described as one of the country’s enduring pop, baila and oriental performers. She first stepped on stage as a child in 1971, around the age of nine, and has since sung across Western, oriental and baila styles for more than five decades, both in Sri Lanka and for Sri Lankan audiences abroad.
Corrine Almeida was born Corrine Dreane Antoinette Almeida into a family steeped in music and performance. Her mother, Noeline, and her brother Kevin were both musicians, and her son, Brandon Ingram, has worked in entertainment as well. That household made an early stage career natural rather than unusual, and she was performing in public while still a schoolgirl.
Over a career spanning the 1970s onward, Corrine Almeida built a reputation as a versatile live vocalist comfortable moving between Western pop, baila and Sinhala oriental material. She has been associated with the wider circle of Sri Lankan stage bands and worked alongside many of the island’s leading musicians. In her own words she keeps performing “to win fans, not so much for the money anymore,” a line that fits her long run as a working stage singer rather than a studio-only artist.
Lyrics-lk hosts several recordings tied to Corine Almeda, including her well-known Mage Konde Nathath (මගේ කොණ්ඩේ නැතත්), also catalogued in a longer form as Mage Konde Nethath Inagawata. The site also features her remake of Adaraya Nisa and the lighthearted Pulun Wagei Sudu Rawula Digai, a Christmas number, alongside the carol Kalakata Pera Ae Bethleheme. She is also one of the voices on Nagitimu Sri Lanka, the 2020 Gammadda theme, a large multi-artist recording.
Part of Corrine Almeida’s appeal is her range across registers that rarely sit on one stage at once: festive Sinhala Christmas carols, baila crowd-pleasers, and pop standards. For Sri Lankan listeners at home and in the diaspora, that breadth is why her name keeps appearing on event line-ups decades after her debut, and why the Korin Almeda spelling still turns up in local search alongside the Corine Almeda form used here.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Corine Almeda.