Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1st Dec, 1955 in Bhardaha, Saptari, Sagarmatha, Nepal. He is a playback singer in commercial Bollywood, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Nepali language Cinema.

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Udit Narayan is the son of Harikrishna Jha and his mother’s name is Bhuvaneshwari Jha. His father belongs to Nepal and his mother is from India. From Jageshwar High School, Kunauli, Supaul, Bihar, India completed his school-level education. After this from Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal completed his intermediate degree. His father was a farmer and his mother was a folk singer and his mother encouraged his career. 

Ranjana Narayan claimed to be the Narayan’s first wife in the year 2006, but Narayan consistently denied it.  Later, he accepted her as his wife and promise to provide for her maintenance. Udit also marries Deepa. When he married Ranjana he began his relationship with Deepa.  With Deepa Narayan, he has a son Aditya Narayan, who is also a playback singer.

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Udit is one of the most prominent singers of Bollywood. For various Bollywood stars, he has been the on-screen singing voice. The Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Ajay Devgn, he has sung. With Alka Yagnik Udit did most of his duets. In 1970 he began his career as a Maithili folk singer for Radio Nepal. 

Udit singing mostly popular folk songs in Maithili and Nepali. He moved to Bombay after eight years, on a musical scholarship for Nepalese from the Indian Embassy in Nepal to study classical music at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. In 1980 Udit started his Bollywood career. In the Hindi film “Unees-Bees” he worked with the music director Rajesh Roshan, who asked Narayan to playback sing. He also got an opportunity to sing with the singer Mohammed Rafi.  He also got an opportunity in 1983 to sing with the well-known female singer Lata Mangeshkar in the film “Bade Dil Wala”. 

From the film “Devdas” in 2002 Udit sang “Bairi Piya” with newcomer Shreya Ghoshal. For the album Women’s Day Special: Spreading Melodies Everywhere, he sang a song titled “Na Hum Jo Kah De” with Shreya Ghoshal” and this song was composed by Ram Shankar and penned by A.k.Mishra. He sang in the various films like : Pukar, Dhadkan,Lagaan, and Veer-Zaara and many more. With Kumar Sanu he also sang a song titled Yeh Duniyan Gazab Ki.

In 2009, Udit was awarded the Padma Shri, and in 2016 Padma Bhushan. In spite of these, he also won the Three Filmfare awards under the category of Best Playback Singer Male. He has performed in many stage shows in India and abroad. Due to his best performances, he won the Screen Videocon Award, MTV Best Video Award, and Pride of India Gold Award.