attached to the Ministry of Education. Around the same time, he unveiled his second album Kerakena Rode. He received his Master's degree in 1992 from the Bhatkhande Music Institute Deemed University, Lucknow. Apart from singing, he composed and worked as the music director for more than fifty-two singers. He also composed music for a number of stage plays and teledramas. He has performed as an actor in seventeen stage plays including maiden acting in 1975 stage play Spartacus and then in Kontha Nona, Angara Ganga Galabhasi, Mawatha Api, Sekkuwa, Nari Bena, Gajaman Puwatha, Oedipus and Satara Waram Raja Daruwo. In 2010, Jayakody and Charitha organized a musical tour titled Wasanthaye Aga to Europe from October 16. In 2019, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka conferred a lifetime achievement award for Jayakody for his contribution to the Sri Lankan music industry. He has contributed playback singing to several films, including Seilama, Gedara Buddha Amma, Mangala Thagga, Himagira, Saroja and Kiri Kawadi. He made maiden cinema appearance in the musical film Guththila with the titular role. Jayakody's album Deduna Palama was released on April 6, 2003. Jayakody has performed his solo musical concert titled Marambari since January 2010. So far, 13 Marambari concerts have been held in Italy alone. The series was a huge success in Canada, London, France, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and the United States. In November 2017, Marambari concert was held at Apeksha Hospital, Maharagama. The tenth anniversary of Jayakody's Marambari solo concert was held on the evening of the 31 January 2020 at the Bandaranaike Memorial Conference Hall, Colombo. References External links Music and drama brought them together තාත්තයි අම්මයි - පුතයි එකම වේදිකාවක විශාරද එඩ්වඩ් ජයකොඩිගේ දස වසරක මාරම්බරී සුගැයුම එඩ්වඩ් ජයකොඩි මාරම්බරී 100 මාරම්බරීට 100 යි එඩ්වඩ් - චරිතා යුවළගේ පුතයි දුවයි වේදිකාවට මාරම්බරී ප්‍රසංගයට රුපියල් 100000 පරිත්‍යාගයක් මාරම්බරී වේදිකාවට ආවේ වසර තිස් පහකට පසු සතියේ මියුසික් වීඩියෝව මාරම්බරීට 100යි - අද හොදම දවස ඔබ එනවා නම් Living people 1952 births 20th-century Sri Lankan male singers Sri Lankan Roman Catholics Faculty of Nalanda College, Colombo Sinhalese singers Kala Suri