म नेपाली हु,मलाइ भारतीय भनेर कृपया नचिनिदिनु होला भन्दै जब उदितले आसु खसाले...(भिडियो)

Narayan's birthplace is disputed, either in Bhardha, Saptari district, Nepal[4] or Baisi, Supaul district, Bihar, India.[5] He studied at Jageshwar High School, Kunauli, Supaul, India, where he finished his SSC (Class XII) and later obtained his intermediate degree from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, Kathmandu.

He was one of the most prominent Bollywood singers throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. He has been the on-screen singing voice for various Bollywood stars. He has also sung with Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna and Dev Anand. 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. Gradually, he started singing Nepali Modern 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. In 1980, noted music director (composer) Rajesh Roshan asked him to playback sing for the Hindi film "Unees Bees". Narayan was given the opportunity to sing with the veteran singer Mohammed Rafi. Soon after, Narayan sang for a number of other movies, including Bade Dil Wala in 1983, where he sang a duet with legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar composed by legendary music director R D Burman. In the same year, Narayan sang with Kishore Kumar, the most prominent and successful Bollywood playback singer of the time, in the film Kehdo Pyar Hai another singer was Suresh Wadkar and Music composed by Bappi Lahiri. A significant milestone in his career occurred in 1988 when Anand-Milind gave him the opportunity to sing all the songs for the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak with Alka Yagnik which earned him a Filmfare Award.[6] As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time".[7] He has sung more than 30,000 songs in over 36 languages.[He has worked with music directors like Rajesh Roshan, Rahul Dev Burman, Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Usha Khanna, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Nikhil Vinay, Hamsalekha, A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jagjit Singh, Anup Jalota, Uttam Singh, Raam Laxman, Ilayaraja, Bhupen Hazarika, Shiv-Hari, Ravindra Jain, Madan Mohan, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Himesh Reshammiya, Viju Shah, Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani, Mani Sharma, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthik Raja, Harris Jayaraj, Devi Sri Prasad, G. V. Prakash Kumar, Ismail Darbar, Anand Raj Anand, Aadesh Shrivastava, Arun Paudwal, Pritam Chakraborty, Jeet Gannguli, Sajid-Wajid, Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sanjeev-Darshan, Sohail Sen, Sandesh Shandilya, Sandeep Chowta, Ram Sampath, Rahul Sharma, Daboo Malik, Sameer Tondon, Sukhwinder Singh, Roop Kumar Rathod, Adnan Sami, Kailash Kher, Vishal–Shekhar, Salim–Sulaiman, Meet Bros Anjjan, Ajay-Atul, Sachin - Jigar, Amit Trivedi and etc.