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Udit Narayan Jha, popularly known as Udit Narayan (Nepali: उदित नारायण) is a playback singer in commercial Hindi, Urdu, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Assamese, Angika, and Nepali language cinema. Narayan has sung more than 15,000 songs in more than 30 different languages, of which over 260 films have been in Hindi alone. He is also a recipient of the Padma Shri award in 2009. Udit Narayan Jha was born in 1955 at his maternal grandparents' home in a village called Baisi in the Supaul district of Bihar, India. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi. Narayan studied at Kunauli Bazaar (Saharsa, now Supaul, Bihar), where he passed his S.L.C. and later obtained his intermediate from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus (Kathmandu). Udit Narayan began his career in Nepal singing for Kathmandu Radio Station as a staff artiste for Maithili and Nepali folk songs. After eight years in that role, Indian Embassy offered him the chance to study classical music at a prestigious school in Bombay, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan on a music scholarship. He moved to Bombay in 1978. He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) Rajesh Roshan asked...
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