Udit Narayan Jha | |
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Udit at Rampur Ke Lakshman Music Launch
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Background information | |
Native name | उदित नारायण झा |
Birth name | Udit Narayan Jha |
Born |
Saptari, Nepal |
1 December 1955
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | Playback singer, Television Personality , Actor, producer, dancer, |
Years active | 1980–present |
Labels | Yash Raj Films, T-Series, Sony Music, HMV Records, Tips, Saregama, Venus Records & Tapeslove |
Udit Narayan Jha (उदित नारायण झा) is a Bollywood playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi language and Bollywood movies. Besides Hindi, he has sung in many other languages including Nepali, Maithili, Bhojpuri Kannada, Tulu, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Garhwali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Meitei and Bengali. He has won three National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. Udit Narayan was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 and in 2016 he was awarded with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He was also awarded the Prabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu by the late King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in 2001,