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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kosandpol" data-source="post: 12996888" data-attributes="member: 105851">Can be many reasons (they like the song, its a tribute) but mostly for the money. Same reason Jothi sang Sinhala covers of Indian songs.Been to only one. I was small then but it was one of last concerts and by then his singing ability had weakened a lot. However all this is besides the point.Not necessary as the original singer doesnt own the song unless he wrote or made the melody. Again, Not necessarily so. While its true for any local artist that tries to be like Jothi, its not necessarily true for ALL of them. There are a handful of covers that are quite good. Aivo Dennis for one. He sang covers of all Sunil Shantha's songs as a form of tribute to that great artist.Also doing covers re introduces old songs to the new generation (Aivo Dennis did this too). Unfortunately, this is where DJs and presenters drop the ball, as most of the time they themselves dont know who the original singer is and are not even bothered to learn the history behind the song.Then there is the case of where the cover version which is reworked with different tune ends up being a good song by itself. Bad covers, remixes,etc, etc, done purely to ride on the coat tales of the original song's popularity is what needs to be stopped.</blockquote>

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