“What’s interesting is that we have younger members who were born in the 90’s and for them it’s a bit of an eye-opener because they haven’t heard artists like the Spice Girls etc. But for us, the older members, it’s what we grew up with and we are trying

in a matter of hours. That concert sort of propelled us to try different genres of music.”

They had so much fun with pop music because a lot of them had grown up listening to the music. It was also a lot of fun dressing up for the show, they add. “It’s not only about the singing but we try to get into the whole experience of whatever we do,” Shehara says.

Nilanga explains that for this show they tried to figure out what was the big thing that could be done this year. “Once we did the 80’s, we said listen, we conquered the 80’s now we have to conquer the 90’s.” That was when the choir had decided to put together the show.

“What’s interesting is that we have younger members who were born in the 90’s and for them it’s a bit of an eye-opener because they haven’t heard artists like the Spice Girls etc. But for us, the older members, it’s what we grew up with and we are trying to pay tribute to that,” she adds.

The pair tell us that the one thing they realised, whilst trying to put together a set list was that the music was very varied in terms of even the hits in the 90’s. There were several pop hits, Rock, Alternative and grunge hits as well.

“The music inspired us at different stages of our lives,” Shehara says. She adds that when they were a lot younger it was the boy bands, but as they got older they kept introducing themselves to much more and were influenced by different genres.

Soul Sounds will be accompanied by their Founder and Director Soundarie David Rodrigo on the piano. Dhanuksha Seniviratne will be on keyboards, Revel Crake on guitar, Pradeep Rodrigo on bass, Guyrika Weerasinghe on Percussion and Christopher Prins on drums. The choir will also be joined on stage by some of the beneficiaries of the Shilpa Trust.

“We as Soul Sounds are so blessed. So many people have come forward to support us and we’ve come this far, because of the people who believe in us. And we want to give back in whatever way we can. So we think it’s important to work with different communities,” Nilanga says.

Shehara chimes in that the choir tries to put out a message through their performances. “It’s not just about singing chorally and sitting pretty, we try to bring attention to things that are happening all over the world and how we can make a change and we did that with our previous show “Totally 80’s” and we felt that it was well received by the audience. This time we hope that we can draw attention to another good cause.”