RUKMANI DEVI,SINHALA ACTRESS AND SINGER BORN 1923 JANUARY 15- 1978 SEPTEMBER 25
RUKMANI DEVI,SINHALA ACTRESS AND SINGER BORN 1923 JANUARY 15- 1978 SEPTEMBER 25 As a little girl, Daniels showed an inborn talent to sing and dance. At the age of seven she was picked to sing Christmas carols. Impressed with her ability to sing, dance, and also to act, she was selected to perform a main role in a Christmas play, 'The Shoemaker's Wife'. Rukmani Devi, was born as Daisy Rasammah Daniels to a Colombo Chetty Christian family on January 15, 1923 at Ramboda in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. Second, in a family of five, her father, Joh John Daniel worked on a plantation and her mother, Helen Rose was a teacher. Ruwini JAYAWARDANA Talent, they say, is inborn rather than achieved. Similarly Sri Lanka’s immensely talented screen queen and nightingale, Daisy Rasamma Daniels, renowned as Rukmani Devi, was born with acting skills and a golden voice, two qualities along with her beauty took her on an early path to stardom. Known...