නිරෝෂා විරාජිනී
72 songs performed
Nirosha Virajini (නිරෝෂා විරාජිනී), born Virajini Lalithya de Silva, is a Sri Lankan singer, music director and playback artist whose warm, emotionally direct voice has carried Sinhala film songs and ballads since the early 1990s. She is among the most-awarded female playback singers of her generation, recognised at both the President’s Awards and the Sarasaviya Awards.
Nirosha Virajini was born on 13 January 1973 in Kandy. Her mother was musically gifted and encouraged her singing from childhood. She started out as a chorus and educational-programme singer at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, then performed with the band Super Sons before studying in Chennai, which gave her the grounding to sing in Tamil and Hindi as well as her native Sinhala.
Virajini built her name as a playback singer, lending her voice to Sinhala cinema while also releasing albums under her own name. Her work was honoured with Best Female Vocalist awards: at the President’s Award in 2000 for Rajya Sevaya Pinisai, and at the Sarasaviya Awards in 2002 for Kinihiriya Mal and again in 2016 for Sinahawa Atharin. Over a career spanning more than two decades she has recorded in Sinhala, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam, working alongside leading composers of the Sri Lankan scene.
Virajini is known for tender, longing love songs, and several of her enduring recordings are documented on Lyrics-lk with their Sinhala script, English transliteration and translation. Her album-era ballads such as Sigiri Geeyak (සිගිරි ගීයක්) and Sitha Handai Ma Thaniwi remain among her best-loved.
What sets Nirosha Virajini apart is an unforced, conversational delivery that suits sorrowful and devotional lyrics alike, which is why her songs still feature on Sri Lankan radio and in diaspora playlists. Her multilingual range and steady stream of film work made her a fixture of Sinhala playback singing across the 1990s, 2000s and beyond. Lyrics-lk hosts more than seventy of her recordings, each presented with translation and meaning for bilingual listeners.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Nirosha Virajini.