

It was the first time that a female artiste was recognized by a university in Sri Lanka. In 2017, she has conferred the honorary degree ‘Darshana Shuri’, Doctor of Philosophy of Fine Arts by the University of Visual and Performing Arts. Another of her CD's titled "Andaharaya" is made up of music composed of computer software. In 1993, she composed a CD "Kunkuma Pottu" which has songs sung in Tamil. The launching ceremony was held at the BMICH Open Air Theater at 7.30 p.m. On 8 September 2007, she launched her CD Etha Kandu Yaye comprising a collection of 16 award winning songs. Malini has produced 25 cassettes such as Malata Renu, Saadu Naada and Sari Podiththak. In 1984, she established a music academy Nanda Malini Ashram. After 22 years her newest solo musical concert titled "Shwetha Rathriya" was held with the collaboration of Sirasa FM in 2010. Her songs in "Pavana" were banned in SLBC and SLRC where the concert was also banned.

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She conducted her next solo musical concert series "Pavana" in June 1987 which ran for 18 months with 205 shows. She played 500 shows and ended in August 1984. In August 1981 she started another concert series "Sathyaye Geethaya". In 1973, she started her first solo concert series, and after having 530 shows the series ended on. In 1971, Nanda collaborated with Amaradewa in the "Srawana Aradhana concert". Some of Nanda's popular songs, such as Manda Nawa Karanawa, show a humorous and sensitive account of a young woman's experience of loneliness. The songs Pipunu Male Ruwa, Sudu Hamine, and Kada Mandiye attest to her effort to expose the hearts of women. Her lyrics depict realistic life situations, love, relationships, and emotions. Malini has had a string of successful releases.

Amaradeva's program "Madhuvanthi" singing the songs Sannaliyane and Ran Dahadiya Bindu Bindu. Upon her return to Sri Lanka, Malini appeared on W.D. She would later return to the University to obtain a Visharada degree in 1984 with a First Division Distinction. She studied for a year at Heywood Institute of Art and moving on to Bhatkhande Music Institute in Lucknow, India in 1963. Nanda continued her training after achieving fame, learning under B. Since then she has sung in many films and has won 11 Sarasavi awards, 8 Presidential awards and adjudged the most popular female vocalist from 1995-98. The film won all the Sarasavi awards for music that year where Malini won the award for the Best Female Singer, her first major award. In that film, she sang the song Galana Gagaki Jeewithe with Narada Disasekara which was the first song written by Chandraratne Manawasinghe for cinema. In 1963, Amaradeva selected Malini for background singing for the film Ranmuthu Duwa, the first Sinhala colour film. Danny on Karunaratne Abeysekera's popular program known as Lama Mandapaya on Radio. Amaradeva invited Nanda to take part in a song, she sang the song Budu Sadu written by Asoka Colombage and set to music by D. After winning the poetry contest, Radio Ceylon W. In 1956, she contested for ‘Padya Gayana’ competition held at Borella YMBA, in which she won a gold medal. Younger daughter Ama is married to Sanjeewa. Elder daughter Varuni is married to Chaminda, son of popular lyricist Dharmasiri Gamage. She was married to Suneth Gokula and the couple has two daughters – Varuni Saroja, Ama Sarada. She moved to Kotahena in Colombo as an adolescent and was admitted to Sri Gunananda Vidyalaya where she came under the tutelage of T. Her mother, Liyanage Emily Perera was a housewife. Her father, Vincent Perera was a skillful tailor and ready-made coat maker. Nanda was born on 23 August 1943 as the fourth child to a rural family of nine in Lewwanduwa in Aluthgama, Sri Lanka.
