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‘Home Sweet Home’ for Patrick
After 35 years living in England, Ireland and America, singer Patrick Ellis returns on a short visit with his family and friends, to what he calls “Home Sweet Home”

‘I was born, educated and had a cherished upbringing, but risk taking and a daring attitude to life acted as a springboard to his future successes” he said. He studied Mechanical & Production Engineering, but ended up in the sharp end of business.

Yet, Patrick Ellis is no ordinary guy now, an internationally famous author of the bestseller, Who Dares Sells, and Pay Up. He has trained and coached people from all walks of life and various disciplines (including a nuclear submarine officer).

He has been featured on TV, Radio, Newspapers and Magazines and is known around the world for his music, books and business acumen, but in his unmistakably Sri Lankan simplicity.

“I am a very ordinary guy with an extraordinary track record. My family and extended family are all doctors, intellectual giants in the sphere of academia, predominantly medicine, but I have grown to become accomplished in the use of the written word, the spoken word and the sung word - you have to engage with me to know the true nature of who I am - I believe I am second to none when it comes to business, music or whatever I go for.’ Patrick said.

‘I have never lost my head on my accomplishments and never will, but I have my own idiosyncratic style of achieving things.’ His originally self-published book, the International Bestseller, Who Dares Sells, which is still selling exceptionally well after he published it in 1991, with over 110,000 copies sold, speaks for itself.

‘I have just completed a 17 song CD Album, songs made famous by Elvis, Tom Jones, Cliff Richards, Brian Adams, Michael Ball, Ricky Valance’ he added. In the album there is one song in particular I re-wrote and sang - The Green Green Grass of Home by kind permission of Curly Putnam (the original songwriter) and Warner Chappel, the publisher, with particular reference to Sri Lanka and my connections with her.

It also happened that when I was travelling to Los Angeles last year, I met Tom Jones personally (who originally sang the Green Green Grass of Home which is a classic all over the world). My CD is not available for sale and is like “gold dust”, it can only be given as a gift from me to the recipient and there is a very limited number available. ‘Whoever needs my assistance to succeed, if they ask, I will always respond to them in whatever way I can. May good Fortune Bless Sri Lanka and all her inhabitants.” he said

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