Published on Dec 27, 2013 Udit Narayan Jha born 1st December 1955 popularly known as Udit Narayan, is a Nepalese playback singer singing mainly in Bollywood. He has sung in around 32 languages including Nepali, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu, Garhwali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Oriya, Assamese, Maithili and Bengali language cinema. He has won three National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. In 2001, he was awarded the Prabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu by the late King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and also awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009. Udit Narayan began his career by singing Nepali, Maithili, Nepal Bhasa, Bhojpuri at first when he was in his native country, Nepal singing for Radio Nepal as a staff artiste for Maithili and Nepali folk songs. He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) Rajesh Roshan asked him to playback for the Hindi film Unees Bees and was given the opportunity to sing with the veteran Mohammed Rafi. He provided playback for a number of films, the most notable being Sannata (1981), Bade Dil Wala (1983) and Tan-Badan (1986). The success story of his career began in 1988 when Anand-Milind gave him the opportunity to sing all the songs for the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, earning him a Filmfare Award. The film also brought actor Aamir Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and playback singer Alka Yagnik to stardom. After the success of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, he became one of the leading playback singers in the Indian film industry. Udit Narayan has married twice. Ranjana Narayan Jha and Deepa Narayan Jha. His second wife, Deepa Narayan, whom he married in 1985, is a singer. The two recorded an album together titled Dil Deewana. They have son, Aditya Narayan, who is a former child actor, singer and television presenter. Aditya Narayan started his singing for child artists in Nepali Film with his father before starting his singing career in Hindi movies in the 1990s and also acted in a few films.
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