Suresh Maliyadde

 

Suresh Maliyadde entered the music arena in the nineties as a keyboard player and as a Music Director. He quickly established himself as a creative and innovative Artist. Suresh started his music career as a guitarist of a western group, which he formed soon after leaving school. Later he took up the keyboard. Soon Suresh started working in the garment industry and fortunately for him his music talents were recognized. He was assigned the task of forming a music group, which he did with his friend Channa. In addition Suresh has contributed as a keyboard player for the music groups “Super Seven” and “Favourites”.

In the year 1994, his exceptional music talents were recognized by the famous artist Mahinda Bandara who was material in Suresh joining one of Sri Lanka’s most popular music groups named “Fortunes”. This marked an important juncture in Suresh’s music life. Suresh has earned a reputation as a “perfectionalist” due to his exceptional dedication to complete any task at its best. He remains with his keyboard even after all other artists leave a recording session to add beauty to his work. Though this requires enormous patience from his colleagues as well as from singers, satisfaction is guarantied due to the high quality of the end product.

Currently Suresh is in high demand for his services as a music director, especially among the next generation of singers in Sri Lanka. He has directed music for many popular songs as well as tele-dramas. Suresh has toured more than 10 countries including USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, and Italy, and Dubai countries. He has toured Dubai 12 times and London 5 times and may other countries on numerous times.