හිමාෂ මනුප්රිය
8 songs performed
Himasha Manupriya is a Sri Lankan singer known for Sinhala children’s songs and Buddhist devotional and patriotic recordings. Her catalogue gathers the kind of school-assembly and family-listening songs that Sinhala-speaking households play for young children, alongside religious pieces sung in temples and at Poya observances.
Manupriya’s recorded work spans roughly the early 2010s to the mid 2020s, with releases documented on Spotify, Apple Music, and Sri Lankan music catalogues. Streaming records include the 2012 album Pembara Amma, the children’s-song staple Ape Iskole (2020), and devotional and patriotic titles such as Sthuthi Sri Lanka. Much of the catalogue sits in the children’s and educational repertoire, with simple, singable melodies built for young listeners.
Her best-known recordings cover the everyday subjects of Sinhala children’s music: school life, the moon, family, and Buddhist worship. The devotional side of the catalogue includes Buddan Saranan Gachchami, the traditional refrain taking refuge in the Buddha, while the children’s side runs to gentle, narrative songs that teachers and parents use with young children.
Each song page presents the lyrics in Sinhala script with an English transliteration (Singlish) and translation, so a bilingual reader can follow both the words and their meaning.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Himasha Manupriya.