කැලුම් හෙට්ටිආරච්චි
4 songs performed
Kalum Hettiarachchi (often spelled Kelum Hettiarachchi, කැලුම් හෙට්ටිආරච්චි) is a Sri Lankan playback and stage singer working in the Sinhala popular and romantic ballad tradition. He is best known to listeners for emotive love songs such as Gewunu Mathakayan (ගෙවුණු මතකයන්) and Eka Tharu Katayak, performed both as studio recordings and as live numbers with backing bands.
Hettiarachchi built his catalogue across the 2000s and 2010s, releasing songs that circulated widely on Sri Lankan radio stations such as Hiru FM and on local music download sites. His 2005 album Pini Mal Podak collected several of his early recordings, and his work continued to appear on radio compilations through the following decade.
His songs typically pair a gentle, sentimental vocal delivery with melodies written by working Sinhala composers. Gewunu Mathakayan, one of his most widely shared tracks, carries music by Priyantha Nawalage. He also recorded under the alternate spelling Kelum Hettiarachchi, which is the form many Sri Lankan lyric and music sites index him by.
Hettiarachchi’s repertoire centres on heartbreak and longing, themes that have kept the songs in rotation at weddings, on request shows, and across the diaspora. Handanawa Nam Handanna (also written Handanawanam Handanna) and Oba Witharamai Unne Es Deka Wage are among the recordings that fans associate most closely with his voice.
Lyrics-lk presents these songs in the original Sinhala script alongside English transliteration and translation, so a bilingual reader can follow both the words and their meaning. As Kelum Hettiarachchi continues to perform, the page links each hosted song for listeners searching either spelling of his name.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Kalum Hettiarachchi.