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La Ceylonians’ leader Noel Ranasinghe’s funeral today
View(s):The funeral of veteran singer and songwriter Noel Ranasinghe takes place at the General Cemetery Borella (Christian section) at 5 pm today. The cortege leaves residence 18/5, 1 Cross Street, Pagoda, Nugegoda, at 4 pm.
Noel, who created a new style of singing with trademark sarongs, straw hats and calypso music with a local flavour in the 1960s, passed away on Thursday evening. He was 70 and had been ailing for the past year.
He was the leader of the La Ceylonians, whose best known favourites were ‘Tharuna jeevitha apa vinodaya yen’ and ‘Hoiya hoiya’ among many other popular songs.