Ishanka breaks into singing career
Ishanka Perera of ‘Ishanka School of Music’, a popular pianist and a music teacher, unveiled her maiden music video ‘Heena Sithuwam’ recently on web and air.
This was her first attempt on to her singing career after serving in the academic side of the music industry for the past eleven years. Her song ‘Heena Sithuwam’ was penned by Kasun Primal, who is the studio engineer of the Marians Recording Studio.
‘Kasun was responsible for all the music arrangements of this song. He created a beautiful song for me and I have to thank him for his endeavour’ said Ishanka. Ishanka starred in this ‘Heena Sithuwam’ music video with Roshan Kulasekera, which was directed by Samath Siriwardena. Ishanka Ingrid Bernadeth Perera is a fourth generation pianist of her musical family.
‘I have a strong connection to music, especially to piano music as my father Joy Perera is a popular piano technician and my mother Indira is a music teacher’ she said. ‘J. I Piano Centre’ is the humble beginning of this young musician. With the guidance of her parents Ishanka, who is an old girl of Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya, started her own music school- ‘Ishanka School of Music’ in 2004, when she was just fifteen years old.
‘I learned to play piano, when I was just five years old and I was a professional in the game, when I was 15, thanks to my parents. Apart from piano lesions, I teach vocal singing as well to my students, who are from different age groups. My mom was very supportive and encouraging me to get in to professional singing. It was her dream and this is the final results’ she explained.
Her maiden song was an instant hit on many television channels. It was released on Hiru official web page too. ‘The other special person I wanted to mention is Roshan Kulasekara, who motivated me in every way and helped me to achieve my dream. He is the one, who acted with me on my video’ she said. Anyone, who wants to contact Ishanka, get in touch with her on her email ishankaperera@yahoo.com