Mirihana Arachchige Nanda Perera (born 1943) is a Sri Lankan singer. Her traditional style of Sri Lanka music has gained her praise and popularity and won her 11 Sarasaviya Awards and 8 Presidential Awards for Best Singer and the Most Popular Singer. Malini was born to a rural family of nine in Lewanduwa in Aluthgama. She moved to Kotahena in Colombo as an adolescent and was admitted to Sri Gunananda Vidyalaya where she came under the tutelage of T.