Hailing from a family deeply rooted to the traditional culture and music, Nashid Kamal had an ambition from the very beginning to become a popular singer of the country. Her debut performance on television was at the age of six, on 25 December 1964, at the inauguration of Pakistan Television. She hosted various children's programmes on television, including Notun Kuri, back in her younger days.

Although seen rendering folk and classical songs, she is better known as a Nazrul singer. Nashid had her teachers at home, starting from her illustrious Aunt Ferdousi Rahman and her uncle Abbasi. Besides, she had her music lessons from Ustad P. C. Gomes, Akhter Shadmani and Ustad Zamiri. Later on, when she was studying for her Masters at Carlton University, Canada, she became the disciple of Pandit Jasraj.

She is involved with many Nazrul organisations of the city and has had cassette and CD releases on Nazrul songs. Nashid has also participated in various stage shows, both at home and abroad. In 1989, she sang at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. In February 1999, she went to Cooch Bihar, her hometown, and received accolades for performing for an audience of forty thousand. In 1995, she gave an enthralling performance along with her uncle Abbasi and her two daughters Armeen and Ashna.

Nashid Kamal is also a writer. In one of her publications called Jui Phuler Baranda, she writes about her family saga and portrays the aspects of joint families. Nashid's next book, yet to be published, is called Hath Hazarir Booke where she tells about the lives of 15 women.

All her life Nashid has devoted herself to nurture her talents in the field of music, at the same time she has successfully build her career in the teaching profession.