උමාරා සිංහවංශ
8 songs performed
Umara Sinhawansa (also spelled Umara Sinhawansha), උමාරා සිංහවංශ, is a Sri Lankan singer, songwriter and music producer, born 14 March 1987 into a Colombo family of professional musicians. She is best known for collaborative hits such as “Sonduru Ganga” and “Malakuth Thibuna”, for her long association with the duo Bathiya and Santhush, and for a wide vocal range that has carried her across pop, R&B and jazz.
Umara Sinhawansa was raised among musicians: her parents, Tony and Ayesha Sinhawansa, were performers, and her elder sister Umaria Sinhawansa is also a well-known singer (the two are frequently confused, but they are different people). She was educated at Muslim Ladies’ College in Colombo. By accounts of her early career she made her first studio recording at around the age of ten, performing alongside her sister, and gave her first public concert in her early teens.
Umara Sinhawansa first reached a national audience as a regular collaborator with Bathiya and Santhush, lending vocals to the duo’s recordings and stage shows before moving into work under her own name. In 2017 she founded the Umara Music Studio, and she has also appeared as a judge on Sri Lankan televised singing competitions. Sources note her unusually wide vocal range and her appearances in international singing contests, including a gold award at the 2011 Crimea Music Fest in Ukraine, shared with her sister.
Many of Umara Sinhawansha’s most-played recordings are duets. “Malakuth Thibuna” (මලකුත් තිබුනා) pairs her with veteran rock vocalist Chithral Somapala over music by Aruna Gunawardana, while “Sonduru Ganga” (සොඳුරු ගංගා) is a duet with the senior singer Amarasiri Peiris. Her collaboration “Oya Mage Nam” sits alongside her Bathiya and Santhush work, and lighter pop entries such as “Nano” and “Ara-Liya” show the breadth of her catalogue.
Lyrics-lk presents these Umara Sinhawansa songs in the original Sinhala script with English transliteration and translation, so listeners can follow both the sound and the meaning of her work.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Umara Sinhawansha.