User:Sandun Athulathmudali/sandbox

Starting his music career at the age of 19, Sandun Athulathmudali was passionate about forming a boy band and asked his classmate Nuwan Herath to join him. Subsequently, both friends had come to an agreement to bring few members to create the band. They experimented, learned and gained so many effects from music throughout their journey to success. As a result, they went on performing stage talent shows and many events organized by some of the inter-schools youth clubs. Their dedication supported them to win some of the highly acclaimed competitions and made their name more popular than before. During this period some of their members left the band to engage in other business and only Sandun and Nuwan continued, luckily these two friends were self-motivated to come up with an idea of bringing their brothers Tharanga Athulathmudali and Shasthri Herath into the band and they were widespread as “FOUR” the Boy Band in 2004. They performed many events on stage shows thereafter. In the year 2005, they met one of the best veteran musicians of the island, Mr. Diliup Gabadamudalige, and with his guidance they made their debut album “FOUR” consisting 12 songs and Sandun Athulathmudali successfully managed the band from 2008 and they performed many stage concerts such as Sri Lankan Airlines Awards Ceremony. The theme song for Derana Miss Sri Lanka 2008 was their unveiling music video. “FOUR” got the opportunity to launch the popular music video “Toy Song” in 2009. They also participated in the 11th New Singer Competition 2010 held in The People’s Republic of China and won the Excellent Singers Award. The third music video, “Minikirula” was launched by them in 2010 and made them more popular among the youth of Sri Lanka. Sandun Athulathmudali who is so talented in writing lyrics and creating melodies excelled in his career. This gave him a chance to work with a music production company and there he made 8 new songs which were released through the media in 2010. Moreover, BK (Bone Killa), one of the sensational rappers in Sri Lanka encouraged Sandun to start his debut album consisting 10 songs. This was produced by BK for Die a Tribe Entertainment. The lyrics and melodies of this too were created by Sandun. His first video “Mal Wasanthe” was released at the same time. After a short break he decided to plan on another video named “Sundaree” from the album "Mung". He has been working with some of the pioneers in the industry as well as creating lyrics and melodies for beginners. In the Year 2015 the album "Mung" was released to the public via the internet. In 2016 he came up with a new single named "Haadu" for his “Muse Tronic Productions”, the lyrics and the melody of which were also created by him. Two new songs "Raa Tharakavi" and "Pem Anganavi" were also launched through Evoke International at the same time. Two versions of the latest release “Empty Life” is ornamented with the rapping and lyrics of John Carbone from United States of America. Recently done a cover version "My Cherie Amour" by Stevie Wonder and released the debut English Single "Need A Break" produced by Sandun Athulathmudali, lyrics done by Christopher Wijekulasuriya.

AWARDS Best Singers Award - 2011 Asia New Singers Competition held in People's Republic of China “Winner” 1st Place - Friends In Action 2005 conducted by Rotaract Club of Colombo