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marriage ended and he married
Chandana Mudalige in 1995. He has two daughters from Chandana – Charuni Pasquel who is a law graduate and Natalia Pasquel - a business management graduate. Charuni was graduated from Horizon in 2019 with the highest aggregate marks and achieved highest average for April 2020 Preliminary year Law College examinations.
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music. He had three cousin brothers – Bandula, Lalith and
Ranjith, who frequently patronized their home to learn the guitar from Padmasiri. So Keerthi started learning about guitar chords from Bandula, on the sly. Gradually, Keerthi learnt the guitar secretly. He took part in school concerts as he could sing well.
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Keerthi married
Muditha Fernando in 1978 and had a daughter and son. His eldest daughter, Dinesha Pasquel is now married domiciled in the UK with her husband and son. His son, Kasun Pasquel works for Expolanka Group. Kasun is married to Chethana Ranasinghe who is also a songstress. In 1994 his first
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was recorded in 1980 and his maiden audio cassette "Nil Ahase" was released in 1985. In 1981, Keerthi helped his friend Sunil
Dharmasena produce a cassette. During this period, cassette revolution was emerging in the country and Keerthi and his teammates were busy with recordings. Song recordings at
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Later on, Keerthi befriended Thilak Dias who had a unique playing style with the guitar with a gifted knack of playing it with his fingers giving an exceptional output. Since then
Keerthi, being intrigued by Thilak's style, also used this finger style on the bass guitar for all his recordings and he
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Having learnt the guitar from his cousin
Bandula, Keerthi and a few teenage friends formed a small musical group which played at functions but was never paid. One day, Keerthi's group was invited to perform at a wedding. Riyaldeen, having heard about Keerthi's exceptional skills, invited him to join
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Padmasiri returned to the country in 1982, they formed a band called "Colour Lite" with Mahinda, Padmasiri, Gamini Perera and Ranjith Silva. It is during this time that Nanda Malini had been on the lookout for a male chorus singer. She had asked Stanley if he could recommend somebody
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Keerthi's passion for music was greatly influenced by his family where he grew up amidst soothing music all around his home. The melodious singing prowess of his mother was a huge influence on
Keerthi. His father could play the harmonium. Keerthi was just ten years old when his father developed an
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Padmasiri Pasquel was the first member of the family to bring a guitar to their home. He had joined a group called "Halians" where he played the lead guitar. But Padmasiri never allowed Keerthi to touch the instrument, because he feared the boy might neglect studies if he focused on
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Keerthi
Pasquel was born on 29 January 1956 in the city of Hanthana, Kandy as the youngest of four siblings. His father was Pasquel Wasam Gayaneris and mother was S. W. Leslin. He had four elder sisters: Nalini, Rukmani Chandra, Chitrani and one elder brother, Padmasiri. Keerthi studied at
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where Stanley had suggested Keerthi's name. This resulted in a memorable chapter in Keerthi's musical career. From 1982 to 1985 he was a chorus singer and bass guitarist in Nanda Malini's "Sathyaye Geethaya", contributing for 530 concerts. In 1983, "Foutunes" band made a reunion.
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As time went on, Keerthi became a permanent member of the "Galaxies" band and came to Colombo in 1978. Though Keerthi played the bass guitar, at these recordings he was given small percussion instruments like maracas, clappers, triangle and bells. Keerthi was invited by
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and sets the record as the only judge in Sri Lanka to sit for 10 consecutive seasons in a reality show beginning from 2008 until today. He has been active in music education and in social welfare. He is affectionately known as the "balladeer of Sinhala music".
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When he was in Grade 9, the school had a talent contest and Keerthi was the obvious choice in the singing segment. He even trained the final ten students with whom he himself competed. The grand finale was held at the Kandy Buddhist Centre. Keerthi sang
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Keerthi launched a project called 'The Child' to entertain children from orphanages and to recognize their capabilities. In 2005, 'The Child' collected sponsorship funds that mainly went towards the rehabilitation of the orphaned children from the
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illness and eventually passed away, eventually leaving his mother to shoulder the responsibility of five children as well as taking over her husband's business. Keerthi's mother's dream was to make him a doctor but he started to follow a course on
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Keerthi formed the charity program "Help Circles (Guarentee) Limited" where he started donations and money from his musical shows to establish Bono Marrow Transplant Unit to the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital. Then he donated a
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for those who wish to be professionals in the music industry. At 'Pasquel Sound of Music', established musicians train students to play a musical instrument. Tutors have included Harsha Makalanda,
250:: කීර්ති පැස්කුවල්:), is a Sri Lankan pop musician and composer. He has been performing for more than three decades and has won a number of awards. Keerthi is a judge on the reality show
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Bishop's House Joe Neth Studio had to cease by 10 pm. When there were days they finished off around 8.30 pm, the intervening time was used to record 10 songs for Keerthi such as
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started getting more recordings as a bass guitarist. In addition to Stanley Peiris, Keerthi was fortunate to get work in the recordings of renowned musicians like
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During COVID-19 lockdown period, he created fifty new songs since March 2020. He is now ready to release these songs one by one to his own YouTube channel.
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written by Upali Kumarawansa was launched at 3.00 pm at the Tharangani Hall of National Film Corporation. During the event, a DVD of his musical concert
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Keerthi's maiden solo musical concert "Keerthi Gee Sankalpana" was held on January 28, 1988, followed by another performance the following day at the
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of 2004. This is an ongoing project by Pasquel, organizing not only musical shows, but also dramas, films and amateur talent shows.
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to be on the keyboard, Sarath Wickrama the accordion and Mahinda Bandara was slotted for the lead. The first milestone song was
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and Zonal Directors of aesthetic studies, Keerthi presented 500 violins to 1000 students representing all nine provinces.
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since her troupe had a dance item lined up during the concert. Ranjith Perera instantly made a tune while Gratien Ananda,
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did the video recording and it had picked only Keerthi's voice. So, it automatically became Keerthi's song later on.
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machinery at the Technical College, after his O/Levels.
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