Bathiya & Santhush

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    Bathiya & Santhush, also known as BNS, are a Sri Lankan pop duo consisting of Bathiya Jayakody and Santhush Weeraman. They are one of the most commercially successful music acts in Sri Lanka in the last two decades. Being Coaches of the very first season of the international franchise "The Voice Sri Lanka" together with over 50 number-one hit singles, Seven platinum selling mainstream albums, four commercially successful EPs and countless movie soundtracks. BNS are one of the biggest musical acts to hit the Sri Lankan musical scene since the 1990s, mixing Sinhala, Tamil, and English rap verses in their originals, while they have also mixed Hindi rap verses in their folkhop remixes bringing out their contemporary style and the music industry in Sri Lanka. BNS became the only Sri Lankan hip hop act to feature Indian singers, namely Hariharan (in the song Yaalpanamen), Asha Bhosle (Dedunna Sedi)[5] and Sonu Nigam (in the song Aachale). BNS is also the only Sri Lankan artistes to have albums under both Sony BMG & Universal Music India. Having performed in over 2000 concerts in Sri Lanka and abroad, BnS marked significant success with their own concert tour series "Neththara Live" with 120 concerts (2005-2008), "Shaheena Live" 40 concerts (2009-2011), "Sarasihina Live" 150 concerts (2011-2014), "BNS Up Close & Personal" 50 Concerts (2015-2018) and their latest concert series "Oba Nisa - Celebrating 20 Years of Music" which was launched in 2019.