Bathiya and Santhush

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Bathiya & Santhush
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Background information
Origin Colombo, Sri Lanka
Genre(s) Sri Lankan music, Pop
Years active 1998 - present
Label(s) SonyBMG / Universal Records/M-Entertainment
Associated acts Ashanthi
Nirosha Virajini
Randhir
Umaria and Umara
Website www.bnsmusic.com

Bathiya & Santhush (BNS) are One of the Biggest Names in the Sri Lankan Music Industry as well as Worldwide who were pop/rap duo comprising of Bathiya Jayakody and Santhush Weeraman, who met while at Mary Anne David's school for singing in Colombo (traning mainly under the categorise of classical and show tunes). Since the inception in 1998, they have released six albums and had seven Sri Lankan number one singles. Bathiya & Santhush are one of the biggest musical acts to hit the Sri Lankan musical scene since the 1970's, mixing both sinhalese and English lyrics in their originals, bringing out their contemporary style and revolutionising the music industry in Sri Lanka.

In 2001, they were runner-ups at the Voice of Asia Music Festival in Kazakhstan, where they won silver. They were rated no 2 in the Euro-Asia region and No. 1 in Asia. They won the bronze award at Shanghai Music Festival in China.

In 2002 they signed on a contract with Universal Music, becoming Sri Lanka's first recording & performing artistes to be offered such a contract by an international music publishing company.

Their album Neththara was released in 2005 and sold up to 75,000 copies in just 5 months. The album has been ranked as one of the biggest selling Sony Music releases in Sri Lanka.

In 2006, they released their debut movie soundtrack for the movie Hiripodha Wessa. They also featured on the soundtrack of the movie (Piyambanna Aasai), which was their second featured album as guest artists .

Their latest album to be released was Ayubowan (Namaste). It consists of their popular tracks re-done in Hindi, therefore placing emphasis on the Indian market, making them the First Sri Lankan artists to launch an album in India. The music video of Oh Sathi which feature Sri Lankan Cricketer's Sanath Jayasuriya and Chaminda Vaas and former Miss.Sri Lanka- Jaquelin Fernandez has popular airplay on MTV India (Music television).

In 2007 the duo remixed Sri Lankan and shot a Music video in Sri Lanka for DeLon's hit single "We Strugglin'" off his album "Unstoppable".

Their 5th Album is scheduled to be released in the Summer of 2008, as announced at the "Neththara" Live tour end Concert.

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[edit] Awards and accomplishments

  • Music Publishing Contract under "UNIVERSAL MUSIC"
  • Recording Contract under SONY BMG Music Entertainment / "M" entertainment
  • Silver Award Winners at the "Azia Dauzey" Music Festival in Kazakhstan 2001
  • Bronze Award Winners at the Shanghai Music Festival 2001
  • Winners of the TYOP Award for the contribution to Culture & Arts 2002
  • Winner of the Golden Clef Award for the best fusion band in 2002
  • In 2002 they signed a two-year contract with Coca-Cola to represent them as as brand ambassadors
  • Global Hot 40 selected the duo as artists of the month in May 2003
  • Sirasa Music Award for Most Popular Artist - 2006
  • First Sri Lankan artist to release an album for the international market. (Ayubowan-Namaste, the debut Hindi album was released on March 14, 2007)
  • Winners of the "Male Icon - 2006" award (Award ceremony was held on 14th June, 2007 at the Colombo Hilton)
  • Mentors for the contestants of Sirasa Super Star Competition - Season 1 (2006) & Season 2 (2007)
  • BnS music video for "Res Wihidena Samanaliyak" won the award for Best Special Effects and the Bronsz Award for the most popular Music Video of 2007 at the first ever "Derana Music Video Awards" held on 5th April 2007

[edit] Trivia

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  • BnS Recording Studio is known as "Saregama Studio", and is also used by many popular pop/rap and hip hop artistes in Sri Lanka.
  • Santhush's brother, Dushyanth Weeraman is also a Musician.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles

  • "Pethu Pem Pethum" {2008}
  • "Neththara" (2005)
  • "Kiri Kodu" (2005)
  • "Unmadanie" (2002)
  • "Ran Kurahan Mala (Na Na Ne)" (2002)
  • "Tharunyaye" (2002)
  • "Ayubowan" (2000)
  • "Manusathkule" (2000)
  • "Ae" (2000)
  • "Life" (2000)
  • "Siri Sangabodhi Maligawedi" (2000)
  • "Vasanthaye" (1998)

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