Iraj Weeraratne
Iraj Weeraratne (born 21 February 1981) is a Sinhalese R&B and hip hop artist and music producer. Weeraratne had a television show on Derana TV called "Iraj Show". He is known as a pioneer and change maker in the music industry of Sri Lanka by being a prominent hip-hop and RnB artist. He was the first person to introduce Sinhala rap as well as Tamil rap to Sri Lanka in 2004. His first South Indian composition together with Vijay Anthony featured in the movie Veittakarran starring Kollywood star Vijay ranked number one in the Chennai Charts. Career . He won the best keyboardist title which was awarded by Guildhall Music School at the age of 16. He later teamed up with his school mates Ranidu Lankage and Yauwana Wigneswaran to form a band titled ‘’Zealots’’ while still studying at the Royal College, Colombo. In August 2020, he was appointed as the board member of National Youth Service Council by Namal Rajapaksa and he was supposed to serve in the relevant position for a period of three years. However, a year later after his appointment he resigned from the position citing unavoidable poor work-related commitments. Iraj Weeraratne Iraj