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Biju Narayanan
Person · male · India · born 1970
Indian singer
Timeline
1970s
Biography
Biography
Biju Narayanan is an Indian playback singer active mainly in Malayalam films.
Career
Biju Narayanan trained in Carnatic music under Aryanad Sadasivan for eight years. He began his music career singing tracks for P. Jayachandran, Unni Menon and KG Markose. He got his first opportunity to sing in a devotional album in 1992, while he was a pre-degree student. He was the winner in the light music category at the M. G. University youth festival and this was a turning point in his career. He began his playback singing career with the song "Pathu Veluppinu" from the 1993 movie Venkalam composed by Raveendran. He was adjudged the best male singer in the State drama awards in 1996.
Family
He married Sreelatha on 23 January 1998. After 21 years together, Sreelatha died from cancer on 13 August 2019 at the age of 44. Sreelatha was his classmate in Maharajas College, Eranakulam. The couple has two sons, Sidharth Narayanan and Suryaa Naarayan.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Biju Narayanan head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biju_Narayananbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biju_Narayanan
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Indian playback singers — rank #36
Biju Narayanan | 1993–present | Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: MSI Team · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q2051059 · MusicBrainz: 183dc0c3-c6eb-41d8-a86c-2650fea4d618
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