Somapala, Chitral Sinhabumi

2015, Chitral ´Chity` Somapala (born 4 November 1966) is a Sri Lankan hard rock and heavy metal vocalist and former lead singer of Firewind and the British power metal band Power Quest. He is better known for his work with European power metal bands Firewind, Avalon, Faro, Red Circuit and Civilization One. Somapala gained popularity in his home country Sri Lanka due to his Sinhala track ,,Nadee Ganga Tharanaye". In 1998, he contributed the song ,,Nadee Ganga Tharanaye" in which the melody was based on ,,Many Rivers To Cross" by Jimmy Cliff for a TV/radio commercial for the Lion beer company in Sri Lanka, which was very much in demand in the country, unique as it was a song with lyrics in Sinhala language sung with a hard rock/metal touch. On his latest solo effort, all lyrics are written in Sinhala too. His band consists of Carsten Enghardt (Lionel Richie, Vanilla Ninja), Raoul Walton (Marius Müller Westernhagen, Jule Neigel, Roachford), Sebastian Eder (Avalon) and Rakitha Wickramaratne (Naadro).

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SOMAPALA, CHITRAL - teaser - taken from - Sinhabumi