Receive our grateful praise sublime, we worship, worship Thee. Oh Mother Lanka we salute, salute, salute, salute Thee! After it was sung by the choir from Musaeus College, Colombo at a public event it became hugely popular in Ceylon and was widely played on the radio. The song, which was then known as “Namo Namo Mata”, was first sung by students at Mahinda College. After returning to Ceylon Samarakoon taught music at Mahinda College, Galle. Samarakoon had been a pupil of Tagore at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.
Tagore being directly involved in the creation of the song has been denied by some historians like Indian Lipi Ghosh and Sri Lankan Sandagomi Coperahewa. Some have suggested that Tagore wrote the music whilst Samarakoon wrote the lyrics. Our site is being reorganized, please pardon if you encounter any dead links. This is a free service provided to promote Sri Lankan Artists and their Music through the cyberspace. At Sinhala Jukebox you can listen to samples of thousands of Sri Lankan Music Tracks encoded in RealAudio format. A minority suggest that Tagore wrote the anthem in full. SinhalaJukebox - A Jukebox of Songs from Sri Lanka.
The most widely held view is that Sri Lankan composer Ananda Samarakoon wrote the music and lyrics to the song inspired/influenced by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. There are differing accounts as to the origin of the “Sri Lanka Matha”. “ Sri Lanka Matha” is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. The national anthem of Sri Lanka Lyrics: The anthem Sri Lanka Matha is sung by Ananda Samarakoon and also has music by Ananda Samarakoon with Ananda Samarakoon has written the “Sri Lanka Matha” anthem Lyrics.
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