දේවානන්ද වෛද්යසේකර
9 songs performed · 2 compositions
Devananda Waidyasekera (also spelled Devananda Waidyasekara) is a veteran Sri Lankan singer and composer whose recording career spans roughly six decades, best known for melodic songs such as Asha Dasin, Mokada Manike and Sathuta Wilai Sapatha Malai. Alongside his music he has practised for many years as a doctor of homeopathy.
Waidyasekera built his reputation as a radio-era vocalist and tune composer, contributing songs to Sri Lankan cinema as well as to the recorded catalogue of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. Several of his best-loved recordings were duets and collaborations, including work with the singer Indrani Perera and with Daya Nellampitiya. He composed many of his own melodies, and his songs were written by some of the leading lyricists of the period, among them Karunaratne Abeysekera and Madawala S. Ratnayake.
His enduring numbers, including Nila Nuwan Manel Mal and Handa Paya Sinasewi, remain staples of nostalgic Sinhala radio playlists. In 2017 Devananda Waidyasekara was felicitated on his 92nd birthday at the Ananda Samarakoon Studio of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, a recognition of his long contribution to the island’s music.
Across a career that places him among the older generation of Sinhala playback and radio vocalists, Waidyasekera is remembered as an evergreen voice whose gentle, melody-led songs have outlasted the films and broadcasts that introduced them. Lyrics-lk presents his songs in Sinhala script with English transliteration and translation, so listeners in Sri Lanka and the diaspora can follow both the words and their meaning.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Devananda Waidyasekera.