Kishani Jayasinghe (Soprano)

30/12/2025

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24/11/2025

THE MAGIC OF SPORTS, SINGING & DIVERSITY

As the summer approaches down under in Sydney and my daughter’s winter soccer (football to the rest of the world…!) season draws to a close, as team manager, I suggested we celebrate our year end as division champions with a family night out at our local ‘pub’. When I got home that night I reflected on the extraordinary evening of friendship and unity a sport - played amongst our collective nearly/newly teenage daughters - had brought to all our families. I was also struck by the heartfelt conversation amongst our soccer mums at one end of the table as we discussed various challenges we had faced growing up in our native countries, prior to the Australian journey…

Seated to my left was a born and raised Sydneysider Australian, followed by mums originally from South Africa, Russia, China, Singapore and Nepal, ending with myself, a Sri Lankan. A surprising realisation after an entire year of meeting at weekly Sunday morning games, as finally, time off the soccer field allowed for the opportunity to converse about things other than soccer! Surely if ever there was an example of unity amongst diversity, this was it…!

As I watched our daughters together, I was struck by how naturally unity is born from diversity. The girls’ roots come from multiple nationalities, yet once they step onto the field, language, culture, and background dissolve into movement, rhythm, and trust. Each pass of the ball becomes a conversation; each coordinated run, a shared pulse; each goal a spontaneous celebration. It is precisely the same magic that happens in singing and performance.

In singing and performance, as in sport, success depends on listening, timing, and mutual respect. A choir, like a soccer team, thrives when each voice knows when to lead, when to support, and when to blend. Both demand discipline, empathy, and an understanding that individual excellence shines brightest when it strengthens the collective. In both, diversity becomes an advantage — different voices, accents, and timbres enriching a shared harmony.

Just as a multicultural soccer team learns to anticipate one another’s moves, a diverse ensemble learns to breathe together, to listen deeply, and to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Whether on the pitch or on the stage, unity through rhythm, trust, and shared joy becomes the most powerful lesson of all — one that transcends sport or art, and speaks to how communities thrive when we celebrate differences, whilst still moving in harmony.

On a personal note, I’m grateful knowing that sports – like music – has brought me another international family of friends.

20/11/2025

WHEN IS IT PERFECT TO BE IMPERFECT?

The explosion of social media coupled with AI has given way to a world of seemingly attainable perfection. How to dress perfectly, write that perfect hook, perfect cooking hack, perfect make up, hair, skin. Its endless & utterly exhausting. We know it's simply not attainable & yet...

The opera world is all about perfection. Opera singers spend close to a decade honing their craft & learning to use their voices like a perfectly tuned instrument, able to sing every single note with the uniformed precision & accuracy of a maestro’s violin. Irrelevant that the instrument is attached to a person, with everyday worries, difficulties & yes, imperfections. Yet we plod on, working & working on imperceptible corrections that ultimately produce the perfectly balanced & nuanced sound every single time, for this is what weeds the professionals from the amateurs. Having done all of the above for over 2 decades, & now teaching the craft of singing & performance, I have begun to rethink the concept of perfection in amateur performance.

Is it really embodying the concept of learning & pushing the limits of their learning, if all a child does for 3-5 months is practice the same 3-5 songs “for a concert?" A few years ago I decided it was not so, if all I did was present 20 perfectly rehearsed, beautifully polished items tied with a gleaming bow to thunderous applause…rather, I truly believe that widening their repertoire of songs & genres & understanding of performance would widen and expand their learning. Collectively my students learn almost 80 songs, in different languages, ranging from opera to folk songs, rock, pop, classical & K pop, from which we chose about 50 for the performance. Finally we meet on the morning of the show, take a few hours to put it all together, sprinkle some pixie dust in the form of adrenaline, costumes, make up & lighting and it’s show time! No endless rehearsal, no running over into the night with parents waiting impatiently for the rehearsal to end, no battling traffic & impossible parking, no hassle, no fuss & of course no perfection… but in turn they have the thrill of performance, a freshness that comes naturally when the horse is not flogged to near death in rehearsal, learning to correct mistakes on the hoof, face real world situations that won’t always give you oodles of time to rehearse before you present, handle and face nerves, build confidence, character & self-belief that they are indeed capable of such things, and for me, most importantly, they experience the thrills, spills & joys of live performance, all the while, deepening their love for singing & performance.

Considering this is not the vocal Olympics nor an audition for Broadway, isn’t this what its all about? To quote Nike, to ‘just do it’? Isn’t this truly one of those instances where perfection - as we know it - is redundant and these imperfections are what make the whole overall experience, perfect?

18/11/2025

GIVING SELFLESSLY....

As a solo performing artiste on the world’s operatic stages, it was all about me. My ability to hone the perfection of the human voice and portray the character in the opera to tell a story through music written by the masters, sometimes 400 years ago. When I unwittingly took on the mantle of teacher and mentor (a story for another time) I realised, it was no longer about me. It was rather, all about the young voices, characters and their precious hearts and minds that had been given to me to guide and enhance. It was a staggering revelation and a very humbling one. The only aspects of myself that really mattered in this context were my vocal and performing skills, my two plus decades of experience on the stage and my love for the craft and how I could share all of that with my body of students. I realise now, that learning how to share that successfully – across a computer screen on Zoom in this case, as I was teaching children all around the island of Sri Lanka from my music room in Sydney, Australia – was one of the greatest achievements of my professional life.

It came down to one simple thing: The desire to give and share – selflessly. To give with absolute conviction that firstly, I had something worth sharing and secondly that what I wanted to share, could and would enhance the lives of my young students and absolutely wanting that for them, above all else. We hear this often – that things work best when we do them for others - but to truly experience and understand it, was a revelation. Over the years I have learned to share more things that also make it about more than just singing: Bits of wisdom that helps push them push their boundaries; life experiences that will hopefully inspire; titbits about the importance of attention to detail/precision/making the most of opportunities/commitment/value of hard work etc which have created a safe, fun and nurturing environment for my students. This is what in turn gives me pleasure – watching them learn and absorb, making teaching them even more rewarding and fulfilling for me.

It was once all about me. Now it’s all about them. It’s my students that inspire me to create bigger and brighter experiences for them to grow, flourish, be able to use these skills to shine and be more confident in life. If truth be told however, it is also with a slightly selfish hope that they too will learn to love singing and performing as much as I always have…but as it is given selflessly, they are honing their skills and growing in confidence and will in turn, never live a life without the joy and magic of song and music.

17/11/2025

17/11/2025

The sheer joy and enthusiasm that children have for singing and the strength it gives them - and myself as their teacher watching how singing empowers them - is just astounding...!🥰

The first video was our first attempt - and our first and only physical rehearsal - to sing and put together this powerful song: "Born for this" by The Score, which was to be the grand finale at the 2025 KJ Singing Stars Academy annual concert...

My students range from age 4 to 74 years, come from all over the island and learn everything (including the choreography!) ONLINE, throughout the year. We then meet in person for the first time and put it all together - with live musicians, dancing, costumes, hair and make up, lights etc etc - the morning of the Concert in just a couple of hours...almost 50 songs, in multiple languages, in different styles & genres ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous - eg: from Opera to K-Pop!!

The second video was the final result of that final song, after just 2 hours of rehearsal at the end of a 2 hour Concert...Am so so proud and truly inspired by my students and their performance that re-enforces my belief that children were indeed BORN FOR THIS! ❤️

03/07/2025

Preparing for our annual concert!🩷

ONE single day to put it all together!! Create a spectacular, fun, energetic, song & action filled evening with choreographed pop, poised classical songs & opera in French/Italian/German, bustling Broadway, rhythmic Rock & soulful Jazz, in glittering costumes, a cool live band & a roaring audience! It is the experience of a lifetime - SOOO excited to share this with our Singing Stars - aged 4 to 74yrs - in September!!

It will be a night to remember - the countdown begins...!!✨🎶💃🏻🥰💖

30/06/2025

30/06/2025