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Bouquets for Michael de Silva
The Island
|October 07, 2025
Ex-Purple Rain Michael de Silva certainly had many eyes focused on him when he performed in Colombo, last month, with a band from Switzerland.
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When we highlighted the fact that Michael will be doing his thing in Colombo, even before his arrival, he had plenty of bouquets coming his way, and these are some of the comments that
appeared in social media:
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