Rukshan Tharindu

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Rukshan Tharindu Rupasinghe is a professional Sri Lankan songwriter and author. He has worked as a lyricist across Sri Lankan classical and pop music since 2012, and 28 of his songs have been released and performed by artists here and abroad.

His catalogue runs from “නිවා ලෝ සත” (Niwa Lo Satha) in 2020 through to recent releases, and includes seven songs recorded by Kevin Perera — among them “සූත්‍රය” (Suthraya) — “දියවර සේනා” (Diyawara Sena) with international artist Hustler Bhai, and “සිංහයෝ” (Sinhayo), performed by Dilshan Samarakoon, Janidu Jayasinghe and Sayumi Rajapaksha.

He is also a co-founder of Kwings Media and its Head of Technology — the same person who architects the company’s software platforms writes the words for the records it produces. That combination is why lyric writing sits inside the studio offering rather than being outsourced.

He writes in Sinhala and English, starting either from a blank page or from a melody an artist already has. The work is a conversation: a theme is agreed, a draft is written, and the phrasing is revised until the words sit naturally on the tune.

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