| Rajasthan, he trained under Ustad Jamal Khan of the Senia Gharana.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Please improve this article if you can.For the science writer, see Jagjit Singh (writer).Awards
6 Discography
6.Early years
Jagjit Singh was born in Ganganagar, then in Rajputana in British India.His father Sardar Amar Singh Dhiman, employed with the Government of India, hailed from Dalla village in Ropar district of Punjab and his mother Bachchan Kaur came from a deeply religious Sikh family of Ottallan village near Samralla.His siblings include four sisters and two brothers and he is fondly called Jeet by his family members.Jagjit went to Khalsa High School at Ganganagar.Initial days
Jagjit Singh's association with music goes back to his childhood.Noor Jehan, Malika Pukhraj, Begum Akhtar,Talat Mahmood and Mehdi Hassan.Jagjit Singh, with Chitra, has contributed immensely towards changing the course of this genre of music known as 'Ghazal' making it more ear friendly, melodic and enojoyable by a wider audience.While these albums were breezy, Beyond Time released in the opening years of 1990s was an experimentation with sounds and conveyed a feeling that was beyond space and time.Not only Jagjit and Chitra, it was a big shock to his numerous fans also.The ghazals have a moving quality to them since they express the personal loss of Jagjit and Chitra."Flame") also achieved success.Sajda (an Urdu word meaning "offering"), which has ghazals sung by Jagjit and Lata Mangeshkar was another brilliant release and made its mark as a classic Ghazal album.The combined successes of his many albums made him arguably the number one ghazal singer in India.The audience wanted more and Jagjit Singh obliged with his Punjabi albums.Ebullient, effervescent and bubbly, his Punjabi songs are pleasant as well as joyous.Zaka Siddiqi, Nazir Bakri, Faiz Ratlami and Rajesh Reddy.The scores remain popular even today.In fact, all the songs of film Premgeet were composed by Jagjit.His compositions for the TV serial Mirza Ghalib (based on the life of the poet Mirza Ghalib), remain extremely popular among ghazal aficionados.The elusive element of Ghalib's poetry was sensitively and wonderfully brought out in the soulful compositions of Ghalib's ghazals by Jagjit Singh.But all through this, romance never took a backseat!The journey to the soul is punctuated by romantic pauses like Dil Kahin Hosh Kahin.Bollywood flicks like Dushman, Sarfarosh, Tum Bin and Tarkeeb.Most of the earlier albums of Jagjit Singh had English titles."Affinity" ) "Soz" (Pathos) etc..The switchover may not be deliberate but marks a milestone in his singing.These new albums show a far better selection of lyrics and yes, even the singing has scaled new peaks.Besides ghazals, Jagjit Singh has also sung Bhajans and Gurbani(Hindu and Sikh devotional hymns respectively) .The soothing effect that Jagjit's voice has on frayed nerves has prompted psychiatrists in metros (as large cities in India are called) to prescribe them as stress relievers.Impact
Jagjit Singh is accredited with bringing the ghazal genre, which was previously restricted to the elite classes, to the masses.Jagjit Singh is also nicknamed Gazaljit Singh.Jagjit Singh is accredited with finding one of the foremost playback singers in Bollywood in modern times, Kumar Sanu.As he played a big part in Sanu's initial career, in an interview Sanu said that Singh took him to meet the legendary music composers Kalyanji Anandji after hearing his voice, from there on Sanu has become a legend in Bollywood for his range and singing as he went to win five male playback Filmfare Awards in a row.Jagjit Singh voiced his opinion against artists from Pakistan being allowed to sing in India, when Pakistan refuses to reciprocate the gesture.In addition to cultivating his own successful career, Jagjit Singh has been involved in guiding many new, talented singers such as Abhijeet Bhattacharya,Talat Aziz, Ghanshyam Vaswani, Ashok Khosla, Siza Roy and Vinod Sehgal.He also lends active support to several philanthropic endeavors such as the Library at St.Jagjit Singh lives in Cumballa Hills, Mumbai.In October 2007, Jagjit Singh is hospitalized following low blood circulation to the brain.Tarkieb
2000
Kiska Chehra ab mai dekhun...All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.This set of pages explores the work of Jagjit and Chitra Singh,
probably the best known ghazal singers alive today.There is a page for
each individual release of Jagjit or Chitra's work that I would find.As such, it includes original albums, live recordings and compilations
of various ghazals from earlier releases.ITRANS songbook have been
included.There is an excellent website with a short biography of Jagjit Singh
at jagjitsingh.NOTE: I'm transcribing as many ghazals as I can
myself and putting them in ITRANS format, I'm also writing up short
reviews for ghazals as I go along.Chitra's tour
schedule and if someone can tell me where I can find out about it I can
put it up here.Please note that there are no audio clips here since I
don't have permission to broadcast or distribute that material.Cry for Cry
and Mirage (which
I thought was a disaster).Jagjit is a better
ghazal singer than Chitra.To truly judge their work however, one must
listen very carefully to the Punjabi songs they have recorded.For
instance, I think Chitra's Lori from the Punjabi movie Diva
Bale Saree Raat is perfect.The range of emotion she puts on
display in Lori is unmatched by anything I can find, even in Jagjit's
own work.Jagjit and
Chitra page for the mukhdas to the ghazals.Ghazal: a site by
Rajeev that has mukhdas for various ghazals, and is generally a good
read.Niraj Sharma's
page has some interesting information on Jagjit Singh and a collection
of photographs
Sa Re Ga Ma The Gramaphone
Company of India's web site
Sangani
Mehul's ghazals page has some audio files.Jagjit Singh is one of the foremost ghazal singers and Chitra Singh had been a perfect foil for him till the cruel hands of fate snatched away their teenage son Vivek.Jagjit Singh rose above his grief by immersing himself into music while Chitra Singh retired into seclusion after a memorial album titled 'Someone Somewhere'.Too many keywords can constrain your search.Use fewer keywords to find more results.You have no recently viewed items or searches.After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.Free parking is available at the theatre, and nearby school and church.Error: No Message ID selected. |
