Som Wardner
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Som Wardner is a Sri Lankan-born British musician, best known as the singer of the band My Vitriol.
Wardner was born in Sri Lanka in the late 1970s to Sri Lankan parents, his mother a musician. He was raised as a Sinhalese Buddhist. Noted for artistic abilities from an early age, Wardner had one of his art exhibitions opened by the President of Sri Lanka.
Wardner's family emigrated to the UK aged 10. He was selected at age 11 to be educated at St. Olave's Grammar School, Orpington, Kent, a school which achieves excellent GCSE and A-level results.
Wardner formed alternative rock band My Vitriol in 1999 in London, while a student at University College London. The band signed with Infectious Records on completion of Wardner's Bachelors Degree.
He was the sole composer on their hit album Finelines, released on Infectious Records and Epic/Sony in the United States. The band had Top 40 hits in the UK in 2001 and 2002, appearing on TV shows such as Top of the Pops. Wardner called an unexpected hiatus for the group in 2002, just as the group was ascending to prominence in the UK music scene, leading to much speculation and mystery surrounding the group's departure from the spotlight.
