Turning passion to podcast – Nation Online

Channa Silva on his music-centric podcast  Channa Silva, a Sri Lankan living in the Philippines, is an important figure in the podcast community. He started the music podcast Channa Channa Channa, where he interviews bands, artists, fans, and people of the music industry from around the world.  So far, he has recorded over 145 episodes and interviewed many bands from around the world. Silva grew up in Negombo, Sri Lanka, moved to Manila for a work assignment 15 years ago, and fell in love with the place and people and met his wife. He is also a dad to his son, his two Beagles, and five cats.  Talking to Brunch about his love for music, he told us that he had been a music fan from the age of four or five when his dad gave him his first Top 1,000 cassette tape. Since then, he has been an avid listener, fan, and collector of music, especially metal/rock.  As a metalhead, he was a regular in the Sri Lankan metal scene in the early 2000s. Silva has attended many gigs in Sri Lanka during the “Golden Age of Sri Lankan Metal” when well-known acts like Stigmata, Paranoid Earthling, and Whirlwind were just…
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