MUMBAI: Jagjit Singh, a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, composer, musical director, activist and businessman, popularly known as “Ghazal King” known, died Monday at age 70.
Mr Singh had recently suffered a hemorrhagic stroke or intracranial hemorrhage in the skull.
Born February 8, 1941, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, which was greeted with his wife, another famous Indian singer Chitra Singh Ghazal in the 1970s and 1980s, when the duo first act of the success (male-female) in history of the music of India said.Together they are the pioneers in the modern song, Ghazal and are considered the most successful artists outside the music for Indian cinema.
He has sung in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali languages. He finished third of India’s highest civilian honor, awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2003.
His music has been in films like Prem Geet (1981), Arth and Saath Saath (1982) TV series and Mirza Ghalib (1988) and Kahkashan (1991) People. Jagjit Singh is regarded as the most popular Ghazal singer-songwriter of all time in terms of economic success.
With a career spanning five decades and a range of 80 albums have the scope and scale of his work as a genre that defined the state considered.