Kaushalya hits the top Down Under

Kaushalya Fonseka Mark, winner of last years Best Female Artiste of the Home Grown Awards, is now a popular name in the music arena. Kaushalya, who lives Down Under, has won a Silver at the ‘Prestigious Serendib Lankan Awards’ in Melbourne recently. The asked her a few candid questions about her thoughts about her passion, which is song writing and composing and her life. definitely my favorite. I remember listening to my first boyz2Men album on repeately as a kid for years.

While there’s little you can do with an award except be grateful for the recognition and honor, there, comes with it a feeling that Is very difficult to put in to words. You are considered a lucky person if you follow your passion and do what you love. But being appreciated by someone else for it, is a feeling out of this world. It’s like someone thanking you for being the world’s richest woman.

Toni Braxton was a singer.I was really crazy about for a long time as a kid. She had that voice that brought out how she was feeling. Alecia Keys has also been someone I have admired for a long time and I was lucky enough to see her perform live on stage last year. I’ve grown to appreciate EmilySande and Sia as they both started as song writers first. who my parents are, with the sole reason of not wanting to make a name through their fame, this is something that cannot be avoided. The truth is both my parents are outrageously talented and made their mark in the country. My father, Gamini Fonseka, was not only an actor but a writer, an artist and many things more. My mother Angela Seneviratne is not only an actress and she too is a writer an artist a singer and an amazing event organizer. So I too have received most of these talents from them and am very lucky to be from such a creative artistic family.