Kumar Navaratnam

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Kumar Navaratnam was a locally popular rock and roll singer in Colombo, Sri Lanka during the 1980's and 1990's.

1 Sri Lankan Music
2 End of an era
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Sri Lankan Music

The dominant music genre in Sri Lanka is Sinhalese and Tamil pop songs based on bollywood film music and Baila music. Thus the emergence of western rock bands in the 1980's was an unsual phenomenon. Further Kumar was a minority Tamil musician in a field dominated by Goans, foreigners and other locals.

[edit] End of an era

Kumar Navaratnam emigrated to Bourneville in late 70's at the height of his popularity in Sri Lanka. As a musician he started as a bass guitarist and switched to lead guitar and introduced and played Rock and Hard Rock. No one ever has done it before him. His departure to the US created a void in the music scene in Sri Lanka for sometime.