Darshana Ruwan Dissanayake

Biography

Mr. DRD ( Dharshana Ruwan Dissanayake ) the renowned Sri Lankan awards winning music composer hails from a beautiful pastoral hamlet in Polonnaruwa. Many times in the past, Polonnaruwa has produced personalities that have answered the call of the era and made Mother Lanka proud. He, true to this precedent, is a man on a timely mission, that is to rediscover the lost pinnacle of Sri Lankan music. Though he had had to face numerous obstacles for many years, his climb that started from the bottom rung of the ladder has ended up at the peak to find himself a veteran in the Sri Lankan music industry. While the waters of lakes of the region softened him, the droughts, toughened him. Those conflicting forces molded a world class musician and we will be hearing a lot more of his creations in
the decades to come.