Her uncle, Mustafa Zaman Abbasi, is a Bangladeshi musicologist and aunt, Ferdausi Rahman, is a legendary singer .
At the age of two, Nashid Kamal moved with her parents to Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan), her mother country, to live permanently.
Nashid Kamal married Dr. Anis Waiz in 1993, who served the Bangladesh Army and retired as a Major General.
In 1975, she sat for Higher Secondary Examination (HSC) from the Holy Cross College, and stood 2nd in the combined merit list.
She studied statistics for her BSc (Hons) degree at the University of Dhaka, and passed with a first-class-first in 1980 (record marks).
Subsequently, Kamal went on to Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario in Canada to do her MSc in mathematics, and achieved the degree in 1982.
[1] Kamal attended the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) at Camden for a doctoral degree in Medical Demography, and was awarded with the PhD in 1996.
[11] Jui Phuler Verandah and Rideau Nodir Dharey are Kamal's famed autobiographies that feature her life events in home and abroad.
The Glass Bangles, written in English, is a novel about a Bangladeshi Sylheti girl married to someone living in London.
[4] Kamal has eleven recorded musical albums to her credit, composed of Nazrul Geeti, Ghazals and Folk songs.
She has been a regular performer in various Radio and Television stations in Bangladesh and India since she started singing as a child artist.
[4] She has performed in many stage shows in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, Turkey, Romania, the US, the UK and Canada.
In 1989, as Bangladeshi delegate she performed in the inaugural session of Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata, India sharing the stage with Manna De, Sandhya Mukhopadhay, Lata Mungeshkar, among others.