Soul Sounds (choir)

Soul Sounds is a choir based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The choir first came into prominence as the Holy Family Convent Bambalapitiya school Senior choir, when directed by Soundarie David, it won a Sri Lanka Carol Competition in 1996. After they participated in the Llangollen Eistedfodd competition in Wales 2004,^[2] and subsequently leaving the school,^[3] the choir decided to continue singing with a new and independent identity, Soul Sounds.^[4][5]

Competitions

Soul Sounds participated in the fourth World Choir Games in Xiamen, China winning two silver medals.^[6] In 2008, in competition for the second time, they won three gold medals at the fifth Games in Graz, Austria.^[7]

Recordings

The choir was invited to provide a choral contribution to a CD done in the UK by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee after the Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004.^[8] Three other compact discs have been released, entitled Soul of the Season (2005), Soul Sounds in Australia (2007) and Soul Sounds in USA (2010).^[9]

International tours

Public concerts outside Sri Lanka include 3 concerts in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne suburbs respectively in February 2007,^[10] Kuwait City in April 2007, at churches around Normandy, France in April 2009,^{[11][12][13][14]} at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China in June 2009,^[15] in New York City and Los Angeles in August/September 2010^[16] and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in October 2010.^[17] The choir returned to Australia for performances in Sydney and Melbourne in September 2011.^[18][19]

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