Udit Narayan

according to wikipedia

Udit Narayan was born in 1955 to Nepali father Harekrishna Jha and Indian mother Bhuvaneshwari Jha.In 2009, when Udit Narayan was awarded India's 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 of Bihar at his maternal grandparents' home.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. 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, spatari districs, Sagarmatha Zone , Nepal. In September 2018, Udit Narayan revealed at a ceremony held by the Bihar Jharkhand Association of North America, that he identifies as a Bihari.


Study:


Narayan studied at Jageshwar High School, Kunauli, Supaul, Bihar, India, where he finished his SSC and later obtained his intermediate degree from Ratna Rajye lakshmi  Campus, Kathmandu,nepal. His father Harekrishna Jha was a farmer and his mother Bhuvneshwari Devi was a flok singer who encouraged his career.


Career :

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. 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.[unreliable source?] 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.


Award :


Lifetime achievement awards

Lifetime Achievement Award from Kalashri Award, 2010

Sahara Awadh Samman Awardee, 2006

Lifetime Achievement Award from Suryadatta National Awards, 2016   

 

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