He completed his Bachelors degree, with a double major in Marketing and Management. During this period, Bathiya Jayakody and Santhush Weeraman collaborated on a few projects, which led to the formation of BnS. Having performed in over 1500 concerts in Sri Lanka and abroad, BnS marked significant success with their own concert tour series 'Neththara Live' with 120 concerts (2005-2008), 'Shaheena Live' 40 concerts (2009-2011), 'Sarasihina Live' 150 concerts (2011-2014), 'BNS Up Close & Personal' 50 Concerts (2015-2018) and their latest concert series 'Oba Nisa - Celebrating 20 Years of Music' which was launched in 2019. During the late 90s, Bathiya worked as a freelance vocalist singing for radio jingles and commercials together with Ranga Dassanayake. Stream live CNN, FOX News Radio, and MSNBC. Listen to free internet radio, news, sports, music, and podcasts.

They have been one of the most commercially successful music acts in Sri Lanka in the last two. BNS is also the only Sri Lankan artistes to have albums under both Sony BMG & Universal Music India. Listen to Bathiya & Santhush Radio featuring songs from Life free online. They both were born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. BNS became the only Sri Lankan hip hop act to feature Indian singers, namely Hariharan (in the song Yaalpanamen, Asha Bhosle (Dedunna Sedi) and Sonu Nigam (in the song Aachale). BNS are one of the biggest musical acts to hit the Sri Lankan musical scene since the 1990s, mixing Sinhala, Tamil, and English rap verses in their originals, while they have also mixed Hindi rap verses in their folkhop remixes bringing out their contemporary style and the music industry in Sri Lanka. Since the inception of their act in 1998, they have over 50 number-one hit singles, six platinum selling mainstream albums, four commercially successful EPs and countless movie soundtracks. They have been one of the most commercially successful music acts in Sri Lanka in the last two decades. Bathiya & Santhush (Sinhala: භාතිය හා සන්තුෂ්), also known as BNS, are a Sri Lankan pop duo consisting of Bathiya Jayakody and Santhush Weeraman.

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