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Crafting as a form of Entertainment

      CRAFTING AS A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT  Sri Lanka is a country where a lot of creative people live. People are accustomed to creating everything they want as well as extras. Simply crafting is an activity or hobby of making decorative objects eith our hands. Sometime people do that as their own business. There are types of crafts such as pottery, dream catchers, paper crafts, embroidery, handloom, beeralu lace, cane products, batik, fiber and textile, flower crafts, leatherwork, houseware and fashion...There are a lots of benifits by crafting such as relax the mind, improve the thinking ability, can earn money, and can get huge income by spending small cost. Let's see some crafts one by one.   Pottery of Sri Lanka is one of the traditional small industry. It is an ancient craft. There are three major categories pf pottery. Those are earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.A lot of items make by using pottery. Flower vases, kitchen items, pots, decorative ...
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Music as a form of Entertainment




There are many forms of entertainment around the world. Music is a best option among other entertainment sources. If we compare the music entertainment with other sources, I can arguably say that music is the best option.

That is because of two main reasons.

1) Many of genres

                          There are more than 100+ of different genres across the world. Selection of the genre mainly depend with the culture of the people in a particular country. They include Jazz, Country, Blues, Rock, Pop, and Soul music.

2) Easily accessible

                       Entertainment forms should be easily accessible. People can access different genres in various ways at any time of the day. You can easily listen music through Radio, Television and mainly in YouTube. There are some other ways you can listen music in nowadays. Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon music, Tidal are some of them. Users have to pay a subscription fee to listen music in these platforms.  







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Different music genres

1) Pop music

This is a music genre which originated in the west during the 1950s and 1960s. use electric instruments.

In Sri Lanka there are many pop singers and songs

 

Keerthi pasqual

Keerthi Pasquil is a great pop musician in Sri Lanka.

Songs of Keerthi Pasquil


Rookantha Gunathilake

Rookantha Gunathilake is the one who changed Sri Lankan electric music. He’s known as the king of Pop Music in Sri Lanka.

Songs of Rookantha Gunathilkake


2) Hip Hop music

Hip Hop music is originated in United States in the 1970s and consists of rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rhyming speech, which is known as rapping.

In Sri Lanka there are many Hip Hop musicians



Ravi jay

Ravi Jay is a Hip-Hop musician, writer and a lyricist in Sri Lanka. Nowadays he really got a huge fan base

Songs of Ravi Jay



Ashanthi De Alwis


Ashanthi De Alwis is a famous Sri Lankan Hip Hop rapper, song writer and a singer. She is the only one female song rapper who signed with international record labels.

Songs of Ashanthi



3) Rhythm and Blues

A music genre which originated in the 1940s as urbane, jazz-based music with a heavy, insistent beat. Lyrics heavily focus on relationships, freedom, economic aspirations and sex. 

As Rhythm and Blues singers 


Danith Sri


Danith Sri is a multi-talented singer, composer, song writer and a arranger in Sri Lankan Music industry. He mainly focuses on Rhythm and blues style.


Songs of Danith Sri





Nadeemal Perera

 

Nadeemal Perera is a great singer and a composer in Sri Lanka. He is the grandson of the late musician Mervin perera and the son of Amal perera. He also mainly focuses on Rhythm and blues style


Songs of Nadeemal Perera




4) Rock Music

A very popular music genre which originated in United States in the 1950s and it further developed into different styles in the 1960s and later.

Rock musicians in Sri Lanka

Chithral Somapala



Chitral somapala is a hard rock and heavy metal vocalist and a music composer. He has performed in foreign bands also.

Songs of Chithral Somapala 





Mihindu Ariyarathne



Mihindu Ariyarathne is also a great rock music singer and a producer. He came up with many rock music with the combination of other music genres.

Songs of Mihindu Ariyarathne


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How You can access music

Nowadays, people can access music at any given time period. lot of online platforms, streaming platforms, radio channels, and TV programs have been developed to distribute songs over the world

1) YouTube

YouTube is the main music streaming and distributing platform which you can access music at any given time. Further you can upload your music freely to YouTube. the only cost occur when using YouTube is data. You should have data and a proper internet connection in order to access YouTube.



2) Radio


Radio is the most easiest way to listen music. radio channels take songs from producers and they distribute them with their radio channel. people can listen to radio at any given time. There should have a proper signal to capture the radio channels. The only cost of listening to radio is the cost of electricity which want to power on the radio.


3) Apple music and Spotify

Apple music and Spotify is an online music streaming platform. Users have to pay a subscription fee to access music in these online platforms. The quality of the songs in these streaming platforms are greater than all the other music streaming platforms. 

If you want to listen high quality music, this is the best option.    

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Listening to music is really entertaining and some results show that it will make you healthier. Further music can relax the mind, energize the body and help people to manage pain. 



If you want to be entertained, just listen music!




























































































































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