at 1.00 pm and later the final rites were held at the Borella General Cemetery on 18 October 2018. Career She started her singing career at the age of eight or ten with the first song Yamuna Yamuna Sobana Yamuna. She got the opportunity to sing in a play after recognizing Ananda Sarath Wimalaweera and U. A. S. Perera in her college days, who were involved in the radio service during this period. She got the opportunity of singing according to the music of the musician Lionel Edirisinghe, and playing a role in the play Keppetipola produced by the program 'Lama Uyana' presented by Sarath Wimalaweera. She was an artist in the "Lama Uyana" program in 1948-49 and soon sang a motherly song under the scholar B. S. Wijeratne. In 1950, she had the opportunity to act in Wasantha Kumara's play Sanda Kinduru. While in the school in 1952, Amara joined Heywood and mastered classical music under B. S. Wijeratne. Both Amara and Dayarathna began studying classical music at the age of twelve. Dayarathna was the first male student of Heywood, whereas Amara was the first female student. At the end of the six-year course at the Heywood College of Music, Amara and Dayaratne got teaching appointments at the age of 18. Amara was appointed to the Meegoda Central College and Dayaratne received the appointment at Richmond College, Galle. She continued to work as a teacher for 43 years. In 1961, Amara entered Bhatkhande University in India. After returning to Sri Lanka in 1964, she worked as a lecturer at the Government College of Music on 1 February. Meanwhile, she became a graduate of the Banaras Hindu University and later served as the Head of the Department of Aesthetics at the University of Kelaniya for some time. She studied "Dhrupad" vocal methods under Prof. Ritwik Sanyal and "Khyal" singing from Dr. Chitta Ranjan Jyothish. After the Department of Fine Arts was later transformed into the University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Amara also served as its Professor and Head of the Department. In 1986, she started her career in music professionally. Due to her excellence in the field of classical research music, she also became its Head of Department and later promoted to professor in 1995. For her doctorate, she composed own classical melodies for 34 Hindi lyrics and 10 Sinhala songs. Her first duet came with her husband,