 “I am painting because I like it”, says Rashid Mohammed Rummy, a painter from Sri Lanka living in Hikkaduwa, a tourist town in South-East Sri Lanka. Kongoi Productions met Rashid recently at his gallery, where he and other painters are exhibiting and selling their unique paintings.
Rashid, or Rummy as his nick-name goes, has been painting for the past 20 years and is among five best known painters in Hikkaduwa. He is sharing his gallery with another painter, T.G. Susantha.
After the Tsunami wreak havoc the coastline of Hikkaduwa in 2004, life is now pretty much back to normal and the town is bustling with tourists, beach parties and a myriad of small scale businesses. Hikkaduwa is half an hour drive from Galle and two hours from Colombo.
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 If you’ve been listening to Reggae music for several years, you know that Garnett Silk was one of the industry’s most celebrated artists. Singing songs of freedom and personal upliftment, Silk always had the lyrical remedy for the ills of his listeners. He was also an artist who inspired many fellow artists as they strived to impact fans the way he did.
One of Garnett Silk’s seeds, his son Duce Califa is walking the road of music; not in Dancehall or Reggae, but in Hip Hop! Called ‘Hip Hop’s Delivery’ because of the way in which he performs and delivers his lyrics, the young Hip Hop Emcee named Duce Califa (real name Fabian Smith) is as natural to the genre as his Father was to Reggae.
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