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LEGAZY from Australia

 
LEGAZY AMILA SEMU LEGAZY

"LEGAZY" cannot be categorized into any style, since they compose melodies and beats that can be called Hip-Hop, R&B, slow rock, Oriental, Reggae and many others of our own style. Their motive is to satisfy all kind of ethnic and age groups without any barriers. The band "LEGAZY" was put together in mid 2004, performing in Melbourne, Australia.

The band comprises of ‘AJ’ – Amila Nuwan and DJ Semu, shorten for Semuthu.  To give the biography of ‘AJ’, he started his music at a very young age of 6 or 7. Encourage by his loving mother "Chintha Padmini" he started learning the piano from Ms. Priyanthika Herath and sat for practical and theory exams of Trinity College of Music, London. He underwent voice training by Nanda Malanie and completed the 1st stage or "Prathama" of the examination conducted by the Bhatkandha University of India. Then he joined "Kalabhoomi Nikethanaya" to continue with the Visharada examination and completed the "Madhyama" or Part II stage when he was aged of 17 or 18. He did Music in School and offered music for GCE (OL) sitting the examination from the Asoka Primary College.

He joined Ananda College for his Advanced Level and the first guru that influenced him in singing and playing instruments was Mr. Lesley Wijewickrama. He involved himself in every music sphere in school – the School Band, the School Choir, and in many other musical events. The basic introduction to play the guitar and the drums were given by Mr. Lesley Wijewickrama and there after he improved on his own by self learning. Performed with a band named "Charming Cubs" as a teenager and did vocals, keyboards and drums. Did two music shows at the Elphinston Theatre way back in 1991/93 and sat for the A/L's in Commerce subjects from Ananda College. He was a member of the school band "Rhythm of the Maroons" and played the drums and also did vocals. He joined Mary Anne Choir for voice training. He then started his business studies and doing music became more of a hobby.

In 1999 he went to Melbourne, Australia for further education and completed the degree in Bachelor of Business in Management and Marketing in 2001, and then the 2nd degree in Bachelor of MIS (Management Information Systems) in 2003 and started working for Australian companies. In the mean he performed with few bands in Melbourne - Melbourne Ceylonese, Nature's Image etc., Around 2003, he performed with a band named "Unique" and did many gigs. In May, 2004 coming back to Sri Lanka for a vacation and he started composing melodies for two songs named "Aadarayada me?" and "Nidikumba Pandure", the lyrics were written by his Aunt Samanmalie and the 3rd song "Thanikamata Maa Asala" was composed by Upali Kannagara. He released all 3 songs and on the heels of success he went back to Australia with a passion to get into full time music with his own creations.

He then met Semuthu who was a DJ and joined him to perform as a band with a new style, and the band was called "LEGAZY" and performed in many events in Melbourne and Adelaide. With backup vocals from Gihan Jayamanne he started composing few more songs and decided to go back to Sri Lanka and release few more songs and release an album by the end of the year (2006).

He came to Sri Lanka in November 2005 along with DJ Semu and released the first hip hop song called “Avege" (Anger) on radio and also a video clip now being aired on TV channels. The 2nd song "Digugamane" was then released to media in February just before returning to Melbourne due to some music commitments. All the melodies were composed by AJ. They perform in the languages Sinhalese, English, and does rap.

Rather than doing what every body is doing in the music industry, they compose melodies and beats of their own and create their own style of music and concentrate on the meaning of the lyrics that explains different styles of emotions and then combining them with their own styles

About DJ Semu -

 Every time he used the computer and Disk Jockeying with the Native Instruments Traktor DJ Studio, doing Sri Lankan and English songs remix for fun he wanted to do proper Disk Jockeying with turntables. Though always wanted to do it but never found the time to do it because of Studies and work. Then he joined the DMC DJ School in Melbourne and got trained and gained proper knowledge about turntables and techniques. Having bought two turntables, two CDJ 1000 and a mixer he started practicing at home and performed heaps of gigs in Melbourne. Now it has been more than 3 years since he started doing Disk Jockeying professionally and in the course of his Disk Jockeying career met AJ and they teamed up to form " LEGAZY"

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