User:Ama Jayasinghe/sandbox

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About Ama Jayasinghe
Ama “ Yashasvi Jayasinghe, was born on the 20th of May 2002 in the beautiful Island of Sri Lanka. Ama is the youngest in the Jayasinghe family from Maharagama, in the outskirts of capital Colombo. A singer, song writer, musician and a stage player who stared her musical journey at the age of Seven. Excelled her born flair of singing and maestro of the piano at the Music Matters and is a part time vocal trainer. She is an old girl of Visakha Vidyalaya Colombo.

Artistic background
Ama comes from a family of music and drama. Her grandfather Nimal Jayasinghe is a renowned actor in Sri Lankan theatre, films and tele-drama field. He is well known for his involvement in the theatre group "Nalu Kela" of Henry Jayasena where he is an elite inception member of the famous Sri Lankan theatre play, Hunuwataye Kathawa, a translation of the German theatre play The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht. Her father, Pasan Jayasinghe was a child actor in the theatre and tele-drama field, which he got popular for the roles played in the international award winning Sri Lankan tele drama's Amba Yahaluwo and Kada Ima. Her mother Poorni Edirisinghe was a talented singer and eastern dancer and had a flair for playing various instruments during her school days. Ama's elder brother Gayath Jayasinghe who is a sports scientist in Australia by profession, is a pianist and was an actor in Sri Lanka theatre field during his school days.

Early musical life
Inspired mainly by the music of Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande, Ama started creating her own music at the tender age of 7. She is humbled by her talents that her passion for singing and song writing are influenced by little things in every day events, sometimes it only take moments for her to compose music. Her first major song Lonely Christmas Day was released in December 2016, was inspired by the Mistletoe, the Unknown by beautiful romantic city Paris, and Dreams a love story of a beast and a human which was a imaginary story of one of her school friends.