Bathiya and Santhush

Bathiya and Santhush

Bathiya & Santhush
Origin - Colombo,Sri Lanka
Genres - Sri Lankan music, Pop,R&B
Years - active 1998 - present
Labels - SonyBMG[1] / Universal Records[2]/M-Entertainment [1]
Associated acts - Ashanthi,Nirosha Virajini,Randhir,Umaria and Umara Hariharan
Website - www.bnsmusic.com

Bathiya & Santhush (BNS) are one of the biggest names in the Sri Lankan music industry who were pop/rap duo comprising of Bathiya Jayakody and Santhush Weeraman, who met while at Mary Anne David's school for singing in Colombo (training mainly under the categories of classical and show tunes). Since the inception in 1998, they have released six albums and had seven Sri Lankan number one singles. Bathiya & Santhush are one of the biggest musical acts to hit the Sri Lankan musical scene since the 1990s, mixing Sinhalese, Tamil and English lyrics in their originals, bringing out their contemporary style and revolutionising the music industry in Sri Lanka.

In 2008 BNS marked the end of their most successful concert series after over 150 performances "Neththara Live". This was replaced with a brand new concert series named "Shaheena" after their 2008 No. 1 single and the same titled promotional album for Lux.


Awards and accomplishments
First Sri Lankan artists to secure a Music Publishing Contract under "UNIVERSAL MUSIC"
Silver Award Winners at the "Azia Dauzey" Music Festival in Kazakhstan 2001 / Shanghai Music Festival 2001
Composers & Performers of the Official Sri Lankan Cricket Anthem BCCSL.
Bronze Award Winners at the Shanghai Music Festival 2001
Winners of the TYOP Award for the contribution to Culture & Arts 2002
Winner of the Golden Clef Award for the best fusion band in 2002
Runner-up the 4th Pop Music Festival in Zernjanin Serbia 2003
Winners of the "Male Icon - 2006" award (Award ceremony was held on 14 June, 2007 at the Colombo Hilton)
Runner up at the first Music Video Awards held in Sri Lanka - Derana Music VDU Awards - Runner Up award for Res Wihidena Samanaliyak
First Sri Lankan artists to release a song with Indian collaboration. BNS released a track called "Yaalpaanamen" featuring eminent Indian singer Hariharan (of colonial cousins) in June 2009

Trivia
Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (September 2007)

BnS Recording Studio is known as "Saregama Studio", and is also used by many popular pop/rap and hip hop artistes in Sri Lanka.
Santhush Weeraman was educated at Royal College Colombo and his brother Dushyanth is also a Musician.
Bathiya Jayakody was educated at Ananda College Colombo.

Discography
Albums
Vasanthaye ~ A New Beginning (1998)
Life ~ Sahasraye Manusathkule (2000)
Tharunyaye ~ The 3rd Album (2002)
Neththara ~ Project 4 (2005)
Hiripodha Wessa Chithrapatiye Geetha Samaga Hit Songs (2006)
Res Vihidena Samanaliyak (Valentine's Day Promotional Album) (2007)
Ayubowan (Namaste) (2007)
Sri Lanka Cricket Anthem (Limited Edition)
Shaheena (Promotional Album Distributed with LUX brand products - 2008)
Lanka Matha (Limited Edition)
The Dancing Star movie sound track - 2008

DVDs
Bathiya & Santhush - Vol 1
Bathiya & Santhush - Vol 2
Nethara Final Concert

Singles
"Shaheena" (2008)
"Pethu Pem Pethum" {2008}
"Neththara" (2005)
"Kiri Kodu" (2005)
"Unmadanie" (2002)
"Ran Kurahan Mala (Na Na Ne)" (2002)
"Tharunyaye" (2002)
"Ayubowan" (2000)
"Manusathkule" (2000)
"Ae" (2000)
"Life" (2000)
"Siri Sangabodhi Maligawedi" (2000)
"Vasanthaye" (1998)