Background
Dharmasiri Gamage was born on 4 October 1939, the only son to Maththaka Gamage Peter Appuhamy and Kalegana Arachchige Chandrawathi and the eldest brother to three sisters.
Dharmasiri Gamage was born on 4 October 1939, the only son to Maththaka Gamage Peter Appuhamy and Kalegana Arachchige Chandrawathi and the eldest brother to three sisters.
Journalism Gamage"s journalism career was helped by U.A.A. Perera (Siri Aiya) Growing up, Gamage was interested in arts and literature and was wanted to learn and practice journalism. Foreign him, Maligakanda Maha Bodhi Mandiraya was an oasis and influence of Siri Aiya was lamp-post that guided his future life. Gamage became a journalist joining Lankadeepa as a sub-editor in 1959 on an invitation of K. M. Sirisena who was the deputy editor of the Sinhala Daily the Lankadeepa (then owned by the Times, Sri Lanka).
He joined Lake House in 1977 and worked for Dinamina, Janatha and Silumina.
Music career Gamage wrote his first lyrics Ho Mage Prema Matha in 1955 for Kala Suri G.S.B. Rani Perera who was a veteran singer in Sri Lanka and a programme producer of then Radio Ceylon (Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) when he was just 16 years old. Gamage has written many more than 200 lyrics for Sinhala songs with music composed by music directors like Pandith West.D. Amaradeva, Premasiri Khemadasa and Rohana Weerasinghe and performed by various artists like Kala Suri G.S.B. Rani Perera, Pandith West.D. Amaradeva and Isharada Nanda Malini, and Haroon Lanthra.
Later Years After his retirement from Lake House, he was a traveller and published his experiences.