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 ...
A “very self-indulgent article… disappointing”, was the response from a reader to my tribute to Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh published in these columns. Well, I beg his pardon before embarking on ...
For the millennials, a Jagjit Singh playlist will begin with “Koi Fariyaad” from Tum Bin. And for a generation before that, it can be “Tum Itna Jo” from Arth. The two movies might be over two decades ...
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 ...
Jagjit Singh once famously sang, 'Hothon se chu lo tum, meri geet amar kar do'. Thanks to that, all his songs are now immortal because he sang them. There cannot be a better ode to the brilliant ...
In an era, when Sonu Nigam was God for many young kids like me and Kumar Sanu was one of the most popular playback singers in Bollywood – a voice from Aamir Khan’s Sarfarosh captivated me. It was a ...
It was September 23, 2011. Jagjit Singh and Ghulam Ali were to perform together at Mumbai’s Shanmukhananda Hall. A few hours before the show, Jagjit suffered a stroke. He eventually passed away on ...
Singer and composer Jagjit Singh, who won generations of fans by reviving the traditional genre of ghazal music, died yesterday in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 70. Singh, dubbed “The Ghazal King”, ...
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