උපාලි කන්නංගර

උපාලි කන්නංගර (5 ජනවාරි 1951 – 12 දෙසැම්බර් 2018: English: Upali Kannangara), යනු ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංගීතවේදියෙකු හා ගායකයෙකි . ගිටාර් වාදන ශිල්පියෙකු ලෙස සංගීත ගමන ආරම්භ කල ඔහු එලිමහන් වේදිකා සංගීතයන්හි ඉතා ජනප්‍රිය වු ශිල්පියෙකි. ඔහුගේ මතකයේ රැදුනු ගී අතර දුම්බර මිටියාවත පැත්තේ, ඉවසිල්ලක් නෑ, ගෙලේ රන්මාල, සහ පාරට කිට්ටුව පවතී.

Career
His career spanned nearly a decade and a half as the lead guitarist of the popular band Super Star led by Ernest Soysa since 1974. During this period, Kannangara and the Super Stars were the leading band of the "Nandana Vindana" monthly concert produced by Jathika Rupavahini as well as "Madu Rasanga" on ITN Networks. The band was the only band to have four Music Directors namely Ernest Soysa, Sarath de Alwis, Upali Kannangara and Nesan Thiagarajah. They were the first band to be invited twice overseas in 1975 to perform in Kuwait and Bahrain.

In 1990s, he sang a number of memorable songs and was an indispensable singer on the concert stage for decades. Then he moved over to the Super Fortunes band with Keerthi Pasquel and Ernest Soysa. Some of his most popular songs include, Parata Kittuwa, Gele Ranmala Da, Dumbara Mitiyawatha Madde, Iwasillak Na Dakina Thura and Mage Pabawathiye. When he was at peak, he was invited for more than five outdoor musical shows around the country in one day. After that, he stayed away from local music for a while and went abroad. He was also the Music Director of the popular television serial Isiwara Wedaduru telecast on Jathika Rupavahini. On 10 December 2006, he staged his own musical show 'Swarna Sarani' at the BMICH. During the event, he also launched his second CD "Randoli" which consisted of sixteen tracks, where the music is played by an orchestra conducted by Ernest Soysa.

In 1984, he made playback singing for the comedy film Kakilley Rajjuruwo directed by Tissa Nagodavithana. Apart from singing, he also composed many popular songs for fellow artists, such as Dasa Ridenawa Para Bala Indala (by Milton Mallawarachchi), Adare Sitha Sanasana Adare (by Keerthi Pasquel), Pem Benda Sith Benda and Nelum Vile Kalum Pera (both songs sung by Chandra Kumara Kandanarachchi). On 7 November 2015, The Super Stars Super Concert Musical Extravaganza was held at the Nelum Pokuna theatre, Colombo at 6.30 p.m to mark the reunion of the original members of the band almost after 25 years. In 2016, he became the music director of the film Weerawarna directed by Shahiru Ranasinghe.
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 ඇල්බමය - පාරට කිට්ටුව

 Parata Kittuwa - 03.52
 Pabawathie 03.51
 Dumbara Mitiyawatha 04.47
 Iwasillak Na 04.35
 Sanda Renu 03.46
 Mal Wasanthaye 03.16
Ganganodare
 Susum Kandulata නිරෝෂා විරාජිනි සමග 04.02
 Nidi Nathi Dese 03.50
 Parasathu Kusume 04.07
 Sitha Ninnada Deela 04.03
 Gele Ranmala Da 03.41

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