ෂෙල්ටන් මුතුන්නමගේ
13 songs performed
Shelton Muthunamage (ෂෙල්ටන් මුතුනමගේ, also spelled Shelton Muthunamaghe) was a Sri Lankan playback and stage singer whose warm baritone carried some of the most-played Sinhala love songs of the 1990s, among them “Maha Sayure Gamburu Diye” and “Me Dewu Madurema”.
Muthunamage entered music through the Negombo band scene, joining Shirley Mendis’ Los Muchachos, where he first drew attention with the song “Mulu Gathama Vehesuna”. From the band circuit he moved into recording and playback work, making his film debut as a playback singer in Hemasiri Sellapperuma’s Sandarekha. He reached the height of his popularity in the 1990s, a decade in which his romantic ballads became fixtures on Sri Lankan radio.
His best-known recordings include “Maha Sayure Gamburu Diye”, “Me Dewu Madurema” (මේ දෙව් මැදුරම), and “Mal Sinahawakin Obe Muwe”, songs that pair plain-spoken Sinhala lyrics with an unhurried, sentimental delivery. Lyrics-lk hosts these alongside several other Muthunamage recordings, presented in the original Sinhala script with English transliteration and translation.
Beyond singing, Shelton Muthunamage appeared in a handful of teledramas. He died on 28 December 2020 at the age of 73, at the hospital in Negombo, following a brief illness. His ballads remain in steady rotation among Sri Lankan listeners and the Sinhala diaspora, and searches for the Shelton Muthunamaghe spelling continue to lead listeners back to “Maha Sayure Gamburu Diye”.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Shelton Muthunamage.