Senaka Batagoda

Senaka Batagoda was born on 25 June 1958 in Seeduwa, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.{{Cite web |title=සේනක බටගොඩ: 'පාදයේ සැත්කමකට රෝහලට ගිය' ජනප්‍රිය ගායන ශිල්පියා සදහට ම නිහඬ වෙයි |url=https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/articles/cgq2xzqx5y5o |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=bbc.lk}}

From his childhood, Batagoda had a special interest in singing and playing drums. Before his solo career, Batagoda was a member of the band Chandimal and the Second Connection in 1980.{{cite news |last1=Weerasuriya |first1=Sanath |title=Chandimal's sixth CD out soon |url=https://www.sundaytimes.lk/981122/mirror5.html |access-date=12 September 2024 |work=The Sunday Times |date=22 November 1998}} He released his first song composition in 1994. In 2011, fellow musician Sangeeth Wijesuriya released the song Api Kawuruda along with his new musical band "Wayo". The song became very popular among the public. It was later revealed that the original song was sung by Senaka Batagoda, where he later received immense popularity. Since then, he dominated both indoor and outdoor musical shows and his songs have been highly popularized in mass audience. Then in 2014, his song Api Senasille was released by Wayo.{{Cite web |title=සේනක බටගොඩ පශ්චාත් නූතනවාදී කලාව, සංගීත් සහ මහජන හුදෙකලාව |url=https://divaina.lk/සේනක-බටගොඩ-පශ්චාත්-නූතනව/ |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=divaina.lk}}{{Cite web |title='මට තියන දුක ඒ ගීතවලදී මගේ නම නොකියන එක' |url=https://mirrorarts.lk/chat/1300-senaka-batagoda |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=mirrorarts.lk|date=29 May 2017 }}

In mid 2010s, he formed his own musical band "Pace". Batagoda received his first feature film playback singing opportunity through the film CineMa.{{Cite web |title=සංගීත ශිල්පී සේනක බටගොඩ සත් සර සැරිය නිම කරයි |url=https://www.dinamina.lk/2024/09/12/local/123702/සංගීත-ශිල්පී-සේනක-බටගොඩ/ |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=dinamina.lk}}

On 3 April 2024, an enjoining order was issued by the Colombo Commercial High Court preventing Batagoda from singing seven popular Sinhala-language songs including "Api Kavuruda", "Api Senasille", "Alu Yata Gini", "Rastha", "Heena Walata Panak Thiyenawa", "Senasuma" and "Hodama De".{{Cite web |date=3 April 2024 |title=Senaka Batagoda restrained from singing several songs including 'API Kavuruda' |url=https://www.newswire.lk/2024/04/03/senaka-batagoda-restrained-from-singing-several-songs-including-api-kavuruda/ |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=Newswire |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=සේනක බටගොඩගේ ගීත තහනම සහ කණට විලංගු දැමීම. |url=https://www.aithiya.lk/27210/senaka-batagoda/ |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=aithiya.lk|date=4 April 2024 }} The court proceeded following a complaint filed under the Intellectual Property Act by musician Janath Kulathilake who insisted to restrain Senaka from singing his songs.{{Cite web |title=Court restrains Senaka Batagoda from singing seven songs |url=https://www.dailynews.lk/2024/04/03/admin-catagories/breaking-news/479651/court-restrains-senaka-batagoda-from-singing-seven-songs/ |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=www.dailynews.lk}} Janath made such complaint indicating that Batagoda had violated his intellectual property right and copyright by not allocating the economic benefits due to him and also sought a maximum compensation of roughly 100 million from Batagoda as a remedy.{{Cite web |date=3 April 2024 |title=සේනක බටගොඩ: 'අපි කවුරු ද?' ඇතුළු වාරණයට ලක්වූ රසික හදවත් පිනවූ ගීත 7ට කුමක් වෙයි ද? |url=https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/articles/c3gjjy7q7p3o |access-date=16 June 2024 |website=BBC News සිංහල |language=si}}

Batagoda had undergone two surgeries due to a condition in his leg at the Ragama hospital.{{cite news |title=සේනක බටගොඩ දිවි සැරිය නිම කරයි |url=https://www.dinamina.lk/2024/09/11/local/123602/සේනක-බටගොඩ-දිවි-සැරිය-නිම/ |access-date=11 September 2024 |work=Dinamina |date=11 September 2024}} After the second operation, he developed respiratory distress and later died on 11 September 2024, at the age of 66.{{cite news |title=Veteran singer Senaka Batagoda passes away |url=https://www.newswire.lk/2024/09/11/veteran-singer-senaka-batagoda-passes-away/ |access-date=11 September 2024 |work=Newswire |date=11 September 2024}}{{cite news |title=සේනක බටගොඩ අභාවප්‍රාප්ත වෙයි |url=https://sinhala.adaderana.lk/news/200895 |access-date=11 September 2024 |work=adaderana.lk |date=11 September 2024}} His remains were laid to rest at Jayaratne Flower Hall, Borella for public honours.

• "Abhimanawath Lesa"
• "Alu Yata Gini"
• "Api Kavuruda"
• "Api Senasille"
• "Bidagena Yamu"
• "Elakkaya"
• "Guru Pata Handewa"
• "Heena Walata Panak Thiyenawa"
• "Hodama De"
• "Jeeiwithe Mal Warusawak"
• "Kakuli"
• "Kunkuma Thilakaya"
• "Nidi Nathi Reya"
• "Obawa Soya"
• "Rastha"
• "Senasuma"
• "Sihina Mawannethi"
• "Sitha"

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• [https://senakabatagoda.lk Official website]

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