කරුණාරත්න දිවුල්ගනේ
112 songs performed
Karunarathna Diwulgane (also spelled Karunarathna Divulgane), කරුණාරත්න දිවුල්ගනේ, is a Sri Lankan vocalist whose warm, rural-rooted voice carried him from a farming village to the front rank of Sinhala popular song through the 1990s. Born Herath Mudiyanselage Karunarathna, he took his stage name from his home village and built a body of work that blends traditional Sri Lankan melody with a gentle contemporary feel.
Diwulgane was born into a farming family that had lived for generations in Divulgane, a small village in the Kurunegala District. He joined the state broadcaster’s Rajarata Sevaya service in 1980, and in 1982 passed the radio singing examination that formally admitted him as a vocalist. It was around this period that he adopted the name “Diwulgane” after the village he came from, and the name has identified him ever since.
His debut album, Esata Asuwana Maime (1990), was a commercial success and quickly made him one of the most sought-after singers of the decade. He followed it with Nethata Ulelak (around 1994), Nil Diyawara (1998), Sanhinda Pamula (2001), and later collections including Tharu Eliya Dige and Me Sihina Hari Pudumai. Much of his recorded work drew on the composer Gunadasa Kapuge, and on lyricists such as Mahinda Dissanayake and Rathnashree Wijesinghe.
Karunarathna Divulgane’s catalogue on the site spans his best-loved recordings, from the wistful “Numbath Hari Pudumai” to village-narrative numbers and quieter love songs. The following are among his pieces hosted here:
Alongside his singing career, Diwulgane served as the Governor of the North Central Province from 2006 to 2015. His standing as both a performer and a public figure has kept his songs in steady rotation among Sri Lankan listeners at home and in the diaspora, where the village imagery and unhurried melodies of Karunarathna Diwulgane’s recordings still resonate.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Karunarathna Diwulgane.