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Place of Birth: Kotahena, Western Province, Sri Lanka
About Patrick Denipitiya
- Patrick Tibertius Maximus Denipitiya (11 August 1934—23 March 2013) was a Sri Lankan musician.He was an implementer of genuine western music to Sri lanka's oriental Music in the early 60s, he also introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar into Sri Lankan sinhala music industry and was responsible for the musical composition, arrangements, music direction and performance of many Sinhala songs and films from the early-1950s to 1997.
- He was a student of Sunil Shantha.Denipitiya was described by his music colleagues as the fastest music notation writer in Sri Lanka and he had a unique ability whereby he could write music scores without using an instrument in both Eastern and Western notation.
- He was able to do this for an entire orchestra that utilized both eastern and western instruments.
- He directed music for a lot of songs written by Karunaratne Abeysekera, George Leslie Ranasinghe and Cyril A Seelawimala (and some of Premakeerthi De Alwis, KDK Darmawardene, Fr.
- Mercelyn Jayakody, for example). Patrick was the Music Director for many original songs sung by C.T.
- Fernando, Milton Mallawarachchi, C.D.
- Fonseka, Susil Premaratne, Anjalene Gunathileke (née Lanerole), Sydney Atygalle, Mallika Kahawita, Maurice Dahanayake, Christopher Paul, H R Jothipala, Kanthi Wakwella, Henry Caldera, Latha Walpola, Sujatha Attanayake, Indrani Perera, Rupa Indhumathie, M.S.
- Fernando, Irene de Alwis, Camilus Anton Peiris, Freddie Silva, Ivor Dennis (and others) and for many calypso groups such as The J brothers, Samanalayo, Grain Leornados etc. He directed music in the movies "Senghawunu Menika" in 1967, "Senakeliya" a box office hit in 1974 and "Loka Horu" 1976.
- He has co-directed movies including "Saudan Jema", "Akke mata Awasara" and has directed, performed and assisted in many ways in over 5000 commercial songs and movie song recordings.
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