Career
Her interest in law was overtaken by her passion for music, received formal training in Western classical music, speech and drama. This proved to be her greatest strength and an excellent foundation to her musical career that was to follow. Radio Ceylon, introduced her music not only to a local audience but right across South Asia.
During the early years of the group the Jetliners enjoyed star billing at the Coconut Grove nightclub situated in the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo.
In 1969, she became the first Sri Lankan to be signed up by Electric and Music Industries Records United Kingdom, and Keith Prowse Music London. The Ceylonese song "Wedding Song" (Mangala Mohotha) was her first song to be copyrighted by KPM. "Coconut Manitoba" made the finals of the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, the first time a female singer/composer has done southern
