Jothiratnage Sadiris de Silva (died 1958), better known as Sadiris Master, was a
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
n musician and actor.
Sadiris was born in
Matara. He was educated at the Temple in
Kalutara and studied oriental language. Sadiris later became a popular musician singing and playing
Hindustani
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* something of, from, or related to Hindustan (another name of India)
* Hindustani language, an Indo-Aryan language, whose two official norms are Hindi and Urdu
* Fiji Hindi, a variety of Eastern Hindi spoken in Fiji, and ...
and
Karnatic music. He also acted in several
John de Silva plays taking the lead role; ''Sirisangabo'', ''Wessantara''. Sadiris died on April 8, 1958.
References
1958 deaths
20th-century Sri Lankan male singers
Sinhalese singers
Year of birth missing
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