Chitra stopped singing and quit the limelight for a quieter life following the death of their son Vivek in 1990. But in an old interview, she said Jagjit Singh's music never really left her. "I ...
Veteran Urdu poet Bashir Badr once shared a “secret”. He said: “I have one enemy — his name is Jagjit. Whatever is mine (poetry), people think it is his (when he sings it). That is why I never ...
One of the singular characteristics of the scores of ghazals that Jagjit Singh sang in his illustrious career was the choice of poets picked up by him to sing their nazms. Each of his successful ...
One of the many myths surrounding Jagjit Singh’s imposing presence in the field of the pop Ghazal is that his wife Chitra Singh didn’t allow him to sing with other female singers. Wrong! In fact, ...
Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh was on Monday admitted to Bombay Hospital following low blood circulation in the brain, hospital sources said. The 66-year-old singer came to the hospital along with his ...
MUMBAI — Indian singer Jagjit Singh died Oct. 10 in Mumbai, India, following a brain hemorrhage last month. He was 70. Singh’s crooning voice revitalized the dying art form of the ghazal — Urdu and ...
New Delhi: Renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, 70, passed away at 8.10 am in Lilavati Hospital on Monday morning. Jagjit Singh was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital on September 23 after he suffered ...
Jagjit Singh, a musical pioneer, grew to become widely lauded as India's most exemplary ghazal maestro. In the subcontinent ghazal is a literary song form set to light classical melodies or ragas, ...