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Patrick Tibertius Maximus Denipitiya (11 August 1934—23 March 2013) was a Sri Lankan musician. He was part of the movement that brought western music to Sri Lanka in the 1960s, 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.

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  • Patrick Tibertius Maximus Denipitiya (11 August 1934—23 March 2013) was a Sri Lankan musician. He was part of the movement that brought western music to Sri Lanka in the 1960s, 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 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. (en)
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  • 1934-08-11 (xsd:date)
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  • 2013-03-23 (xsd:date)
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  • The Patrick Denipitiya Combo, C T Fernando (en)
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  • 1934-08-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Patrick Denipitiya (en)
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  • 2013-03-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Brampton, Ontario, Canada (en)
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  • Hawaiian (lap slide) guitar, piano, harmonium, acoustic guitar, electronic keyboard (en)
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  • Patrick Denipitiya (en)
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  • Songwriter, composer, music director, Arranger, instrumentalist (en)
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  • Patrick Tibertius Maximus Denipitiya (11 August 1934—23 March 2013) was a Sri Lankan musician. He was part of the movement that brought western music to Sri Lanka in the 1960s, 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. (en)
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