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Udit Narayan (Udit Narayan Jha) was born on 1 December, 1955 in Baisi, Supaul district, Bihar, India, is an Indian playback singer. Discover Udit Narayan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Udit Narayan Jha
Occupation Playback singer
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1955
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace Baisi, Supaul district, Bihar, India
Nationality India

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Who Is Udit Narayan's Wife?

His wife is Ranjana Jha (m. 1984; sep.) Deepa Gahatraj (m. 1985)

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Wife Ranjana Jha (m. 1984; sep.) Deepa Gahatraj (m. 1985)
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Children Aditya Narayan

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1955

Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi films.

He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Malayalam, Assamese, Bagheli and Maithili.

He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards with twenty nominations among many others.

Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in an ethnic Maithil Brahmin family to Harekrishna Jha, a Nepalese national, and Bhuvaneshwari Jha, an Indian national.

1970

He began his career in 1970 as a Maithili folk singer (staff artist) for Radio Nepal, singing mostly popular folk songs in Maithili and Nepali.

Gradually, he started singing modern Nepali songs.

After eight years, Narayan moved to Bombay on a musical scholarship for Nepalese from the Indian Embassy in Nepal to study classical music at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan.

1980

He got to sing with Mohammed Rafi in his Hindi playback debut in Unees-Bees in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s.

The soundtrack became one of the highest selling albums in the 1980s.

The soundtrack was a breakthrough for the careers of Anand–Milind, as well as T-Series, one of India's leading record labels.

after which he was one of the favourites of music directors.

He is the only male singer in the history of the Filmfare Awards to have won in over three decades (the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s).

Narayan started his Bollywood career in 1980 when he was noted by music director Rajesh Roshan, who asked Narayan to playback sing for the Hindi film Unees-Bees.

Narayan was given the opportunity to sing with the singer Mohammed Rafi.

He sang for Devanand a couplet in Swami Dada.His first duet was in the film Sannata.

1983

Soon after, Narayan sang for a number of other films, including Bade Dil Wala in 1983, where he sang a duet with senior singer Lata Mangeshkar, composed by senior music director R. D. Burman.

In the same year, Narayan sang with Kishore Kumar in the film Kehdo Pyar Hai.

Another singer he sang with was Suresh Wadkar with music composed by Bappi Lahiri.

1985

Narayan and Deepa were married in 1985.

With Deepa Gahatraj, he has one son, Aditya Narayan, who is also a playback singer.

1988

He finally made his mark in the 1988 film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak starring Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, his song "Papa Kehte Hain" was his notable performance which earned him his first Filmfare Award in the 1980s and he established himself in Bollywood Playback Singing.

1990

In the 1990s he sung for a thousands of songs including Hindi and Nepali languages.

Narayan is one of the most prominent singers of Bollywood throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

He has been the on-screen singing voice for various Bollywood stars.

He has sung for Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn.

Most of his duets are with Alka Yagnik.

2001

Recognising his contribution, the King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev honoured him with the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu in 2001 after his contribution to Indian cinema and music, and Chitragupta Cineyatra Samman 2015 for his contribution towards Bhojpuri cinema.

2006

In 2006, Ranjana Narayan claimed to be Narayan's first wife, but Narayan consistently denied it.

Later, he accepted her as his wife and promised to provide for her maintenance.

Narayan has been married twice, first to Ranjana Narayan Jha and then to Deepa Gahatraj.

He began his relationship with Deepa Gahatraj while he was still married to Ranjana Narayan.

2009

The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture.

As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".

In 2009, when Narayan was awarded India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri, there were reports questioning his Indian citizenship, claiming that he was born in Nepal.

However, Udit Narayan himself branded these reports as "completely false", and stated that he was born in the Baisi village of Supaul district in Bihar at his maternal grandparents' home near the India-Nepal border.

When his acceptance of the Padma Shri led to his criticism in Nepal, he told the Nepalese daily Kantipur that he was "from Nepal but his mother's home was in Bihar."

2017

In a 2017 interview with the Indian magazine Outlook, he clarified that he was born in Baisi, and clarified that his father Harekrishna was a native of Bhardaha, Saptari District, Sagarmatha Zone (present-day Madhesh Province), Nepal on the border with India.

2018

In September 2018, Udit Narayan revealed at a ceremony held by the Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America, that he identifies as a Bihari.

Narayan studied at Jageshwar High School, Kunauli, Supaul, Bihar, India, where he finished his SSC and later obtained his intermediate degree from Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Campus of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal.

His father Harekrishna Jha was a farmer and his mother Bhuvneshwari Devi was a folk singer who encouraged his career.