Nihal Nelson is a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n baila singer. He is from the Moratuwa

Moratuwa

Moratuwa is a city on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka, near Dehiwela-Mount Lavinia. It is situated on the Galle–Colombo main highway, 18 km south of the capital, Colombo. Moratuwa is surrounded on three sides by water, except in the north of the city, by the Indian Ocean on the west...

 region and has released over 100 albums.

Nelson's first recording "Lassanata Pipunu Wanamal" was released on EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

on March 31, 1963. He was among the first Sri Lankan vocalists to release a cassette in 1978 with Gune Ayyage Kamare. The release was on Wijaya Ramanayake's Tharanga label which introduced the format to Sri Lanka. Nelson was also among the first to release a compact disc.

Nelson's hundred and tenth album Nihal 110 Dot Com came out in 2000. It was recorded at Sunflower Studios in Mahawewa, Chilaw with conduction by Neil Warnakulasooriya and music by the Sunflowers.