මේරියන්ස්
15 songs performed
Marians (මේරියන්ස්) is a Sri Lankan band formed in 1988 and led by singer, songwriter, and composer Nalin Perera. Built around a versatile sound that moves between pop, semi-rock, and Western classical influences, the group became one of the most widely toured acts in Sinhala popular music and is closely associated with the rise of the unplugged concert format in Sri Lanka.
The band began as a school group at St. Mary’s College, Chilaw, where Nalin Perera (born 15 October 1969) gathered friends to play together. Their first concert was held on 11 February 1988 at the Sudasuna auditorium. Through the 1990s the group built a following by performing live and collaborating with other local bands, and steadily moved from a young school act to a fixture at concerts, dances, and weddings across the island.
Over the decades Marians released a long run of audio albums alongside several DVD productions, drawing on a repertoire that ranges from original Sinhala songs to reworked classics. In 2006 the band introduced the “Unplugged” concert concept to Sri Lanka, an acoustic, stripped-back staging that became a signature of their live work and was widely imitated afterward. The group also toured internationally from 1993 onward, performing for Sri Lankan audiences in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Gulf states, and across Europe and Asia.
Lyrics-lk hosts a selection of the band’s recordings in Sinhala script with English transliteration and translation, including their well-travelled stage favourites and covers:
For many Sri Lankan listeners at home and in the diaspora, Marians is the band of the live show: the sing-along, the dance floor, and the acoustic set. Their long catalogue, their early embrace of the unplugged format, and decades of touring have kept the group a recurring presence in Sinhala popular music well beyond their start as a Chilaw school band.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Marians.