| He was 70 and is survived by
his wife Chitra Singh.
Padma Bhushan Jagjit Singh was regarded as
one of the greatest singers India has ever produced. He belonged to
the Agra Gharana of Indian classical music.
Born in Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan, his parents wanted him to be an
IAS officer but music was his calling. He left his studies
prematurely at the Kurukshetra University and went to Mumbai in 1965
to try his luck as a singer/composer. Jagjit Singh gained acclaim
together with his wife in the 1970s and 1980s, as the first ever
successful duo act (husband-wife) in the history of recorded Indian
music.
He has sung in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and
Nepali languages.
Singer Asha Bhosle said, “If am feeling very sad… Chitra is very
lonely now.”
Composer Lalit said, “He was a great human being. Exactly one year
back he had celebrated his birthday, he was dancing…he was a man
with so much of life.”
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