Keerthi Pasquel has been performing for more than three decades and has won a number of awards.
31 Facts About Keerthi Pasquel
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Keerthi Pasquel has been active in music education and in social welfare.
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Keerthi Pasquel is affectionately known as the "balladeer of Sinhala music".
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Keerthi Pasquel was born on 29 January 1956 in the city of Hanthana, Kandy as the youngest of four siblings.
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Keerthi Pasquel had four elder sisters: Nalini, Rukmani Chandra, Chitrani and one elder brother, Padmasiri.
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Keerthi Pasquel was just ten years old when his father developed an 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.
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Keerthi Pasquel had joined a group called "Halians" where he played the lead guitar.
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Keerthi Pasquel took part in school concerts as he could sing well.
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When he was in Grade 9, the school had a talent contest and Keerthi Pasquel was the obvious choice in the singing segment.
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Keerthi Pasquel even trained the final ten students with whom he himself competed.
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One day, Keerthi Pasquel's group was invited to perform at a wedding.
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Keerthi Pasquel was invited by Gratien Ananda to play the bass guitar for four new songs he was planning to record.
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Later on, Keerthi Pasquel 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.
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Since then Keerthi Pasquel, being intrigued by Thilak's style, used this finger style on the bass guitar for all his recordings and he started getting more recordings as a bass guitarist.
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Keerthi Pasquel was invited to join Patrick Denipitiya's Combo as a bass guitarist and vocalist singing songs of Clarence Wijewardena, W D Amaradeva, Nihal Nelson, Neville Fernando, Nanda Malini and Rukmani Devi.
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Keerthi Pasquel had asked Stanley if he could recommend somebody where Stanley had suggested Keerthi's name.
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In 1981, Keerthi Pasquel helped his friend Sunil Dharmasena produce a cassette.
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The boys in the technical team, knowing Keerthi Pasquel had some songs of his own suggested that Keerthi Pasquel recorded one of his songs for Madu Rasanga.
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That was Keerthi Pasquel's biggest turning point in his tuneful career.
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Ranjith Perera instantly made a tune while Gratien Ananda, Mervin Perera, Mahinda and Keerthi Pasquel were slotted to sing it.
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Keerthi Pasquel revived his studio "Sonic Recording Studio" with digital state of the art equipment and gave a great service to all artists in the music industry for a very nominal fee.
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Keerthi Pasquel continued publishing his Sonic diary which listed the contact numbers of all those in the music field.
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Keerthi Pasquel went on many overseas musical tours very often to countries such as USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Japan, Middle East and performed in various musical shows and other events.
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On 24 November 2013, he performed the unplugged show Keerthi Pasquel Acoustica Unplugged Live Concert at 6.30pm at the BMICH, Colombo.
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In May 2019, Keerthi Pasquel released the song Kadulakwa Aha Arina.
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Later, Keerthi Pasquel was cast opposite Vasanthi Chathurani in Bennett Rathnayake's teledrama Tharu.
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Later in New Zealand, Keerthi Pasquel acted in Saaraa scripted and produced by Sumitra Rahubadda, playing with Duleeka Marapana and Ama Wijesekara.
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Keerthi Pasquel married Muditha Fernando in 1978 and had a daughter and son.
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Keerthi Pasquel has held the position as Chairman of the Sri Lankan Singers' Association in multiple times.
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Keerthi Pasquel launched a project called 'The Child' to entertain children from orphanages and to recognize their capabilities.
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Keerthi Pasquel formed the charity program "Help Circles Limited" where he started donations and money from his musical shows to establish Bono Marrow Transplant Unit to the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital.