Udit Narayan Jha (उदित नारायण झा); born 1 December 1955) is an
Nepalese playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in
Bollywood. He has also sung many songs in other languages including
Nepali,
Bhojpuri,
Kannada,
Marathi,
Tamil,
Telugu,
Malayalam,
Garhwali,
Sindhi,
Punjabi,
Odia,
Assamese,
Manipuri,
Maithili and
Bengali. He has won three
National Film Awards and five
Filmfare Awards. In 2001, Narayan was awarded the
Prabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu by the late
King of Nepal Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. In 2009, Udit Narayan was awarded the
Padma Shri and in 2016 he was awarded with the
Padma Bhushan by the
Government of India.