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Their love story in song…
Over the past few weeks, we have seen some interesting originals surfacing, with legendary singer/entertainer Sohan Weerasinghe’s ‘Sansare,’ taking the spotlight.
Rubeena Shabnam, Sri Lankan based in Qatar, and Yohan Dole, living in Australia, have teamed up to produce a song about their love life.
‘Adare Sulagin’ is the title of the song and it’s the couple’s very first duet.
Says Rubeena: “This song is all about our love story and is a symbol of our love. It feels like a dream singing with my fiancé.”
Elaborating further, especially as to how they fell in love, Rubeena went on to say that they met via social media, through a common friend of theirs.
The song and video was done in Sri Lanka.
Rubeena and Yohan with lyricist Jananga Vishawajith
“We both travelled to Sri Lanka, in August this year, where we recorded the song and did the video, as well.
‘Adare Sulagin’ was composed by Dinesh Hemantha (DH Wave Studio, in Galle), while the lyrics were penned by Jananga Vishwajith, and the video was handled by Pathmila Ravishan.
It is Dinesh Hemantha’s second composition for Rubeena – the first being ‘Surali.’
“It was an amazing project and it was done beautifully. Talking about the music video, we decided to keep it more simple, and natural, so we decided to capture it at the studio. It was a lot of fun working with them.”
‘Adare Sulagin,’ says Rubeena, is for social media only. “We have not given it for release to any radio or TV station in Sri Lanka.”
However, you could check it out on YouTube: Adare Sulagin – Rubeena Shabnam, ft. Yohan Dole.
Rubeena lives and works in Qatar and she has been in the music industry for almost five years. She has done a few originals but this one, with Yohan, is very special to her, she says.
Yohan Dole resides in Australia and is a guitarist and vocalist.
He has a band called Rhythmix, in Australia, where they play at various events.
He has been doing music for quite a while now but doing an original song was one of his dreams, he says
Rubeena and Yohan plan to get married, in December, and do more music together, in different genres.