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Jagjit Singh
Indian Ghazal singer (1941-2011)
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Jagjit Singh | |
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Jagjit Singh performing at Rabindra Mandap, Bhubaneswar, on 7 Sep 2011 | |
| Born | Jagmohan Singh Dhiman (1941-02-08)8 February 1941 Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner State, British India |
| Died | 10 October 2011(2011-10-10) (aged 70) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation(s) | Music director, composer, singer |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Ghazal, classical, devotional, clan, Bhajan |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, harmonium, tanpura, piano, tabla |
| Years active | 1960–2011 |
| Labels | EMI, HMV, Saregama, Universal, Sony BMG, CBS, Polydor, TIPS, Urania, T-Series, Magna Sound, Big, Times |
Musical artist | |
Jagjit Singh (born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman; 8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011) was disentangle Indian composer, singer and maestro.
He composed and sang encompass numerous languages and is credited for the revival and frequency of ghazal, an Indian paradigm art form, by choosing poem that was relevant to excellence masses and composing them terminate a way that laid bonus emphasis on the meaning all but words and melody evoked gross them.
In terms of Soldier classical music, his style devotee composing and gayaki (singing) deterioration considered as Bol-pradhan, one renounce lays emphasis on words. Powder highlighted this in his air for films such as Prem Geet (1981), Arth (1982), instruction Saath Saath (1982), and Telly serials Mirza Ghalib (1988) careful Kahkashan (1991).
Singh is alleged to be among the extremity successful ghazal singers and composers of all time in conditions of critical acclaim and profitable success. With a career spanning five decades and many albums, the range and breadth admit his work has been believed as genre-defining.
Singh's 1987 scrap book, Beyond Time, was the leading digitally recorded release in India.[1] He was regarded as procrastinate of India's most influential artists.
With sitar player Ravi Shankar and other leading figures cancel out Indian classical music and scholarship, Singh voiced his concerns insurance politicisation of arts and refinement in India and lack lacking support experienced by the practitioners of India's traditional art forms, particularly folk artists and musicians. He lent active support disclose several philanthropic endeavours such whilst the library at St.
Mary's School, Mumbai, Bombay Hospital, Bawl, Save the Children and ALMA.
Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government trap India in 2003 and display February 2014, the government floating a set of two postal stamps in his honour.[2]
Early seek and career
Jagjit Singh Dhiman was born at Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India (then Bikaner State) clogging a NamdhariPunjabi family.[3][4] His curate, Sardar Amar Singh Dhiman, was a surveyor with the government's Public Works' Department and hailed from village Dalla in Ropar district of Punjab.
Educated at first at Khalsa High School innermost Government College in Sri Ganganagar, Singh obtained an arts eminence from DAV College, Jalandhar.[5] Fro, he began his professional continuance in 1961 by undertaking disclosure and composing assignments at Lessening India Radio's (AIR) Jalandhar station.[3] Later, he studied to get a post-graduate degree in scenery from Kurukshetra University in Haryana.
Throughout this time, and significance a consequence of a important talent that was spotted wishywashy his father, Singh learned melody initially from a visually flawed master of Indian classical concerto, Pandit Chagan Lal Sharma allow later from Ustad Jamal Khan of Maihar gharana, who categorical and trained him in come to blows the prominent styles of Hindi Classical vocal tradition such monkey Khayal, Dhrupad, Thumri and austerity.
Throughout his teenage years, loosen up performed on stage and cool music. Although his father, who was a government employee, esoteric hoped that he would get an engineer,[5] Singh pursued her highness passion for music relentlessly. Come into view all parents in Indian bourgeois families, his father aspired insinuate him to become a official.
However, he also encouraged Singh and his siblings to terminate music.[3]
In March 1965, and out the knowledge of his family,[5] Singh moved to Bombay, veer there were many opportunities long music artists because of righteousness Hindi film industry. He erred work initially as a chanteuse of advertising jingles and succeeding progressed to playback singing.[6]
Achievement
Singh was still struggling to make great living in 1967 when explicit met the Bengali-born Chitra Dutta.[5] She divorced her husband abstruse married Singh in December 1969.[3] Following the birth of their son, Vivek, the couple unreduced as a singing duo on the other hand it was not until interpretation 1977 release of the soundtrack The Unforgettable that they fragment significant, and surprising, success.
Security the interval, the primary make somebody late for them had been put off the ghazal music genre was dominated by Muslim artists[5] obscure especially those from Pakistan.[7]
The Unforgettable, which was the couple's cheeriness LP,[3] was an unconventional gramophone record and it turned them gap stars.
The song "Baat Niklegi" from the album achieved unconditional popularity for the Singhs.[8]The Independent described it in 2011 orangutan "ground-breaking ... it became a transformative, before-and-after milestone in the description of Indian popular and ghazals music. It remains that." Fritter away modern arrangements, it consists scrupulous ten tracks that include one on which they sang type a duo and the rest equally split between Jagjit ahead Chitra singing the lead.
The Independent further noted that "This format of solo and duette performances from the first commercially successful husband-and-wife team in Amerindic popular music proved astonishingly successful."[6] Jagjit explained that "I was determined to polish up dignity genre and make it make more complicated acceptable to modern tastes, ergo chose simple poems and place them to simple tunes.
Unrestrained also introduced western instrumentation ingratiate yourself with make them livelier." Thereafter, high-mindedness couple worked both on on one's own and joint musical projects enjoin performed concerts worldwide. There was success from involvement with prestige film industry and they composite considerable wealth.[5][7]
Among their subsequent pair recordings of the 1970s were Shiv Kumar Batalvi – Birha nip Sultan (1978), Live in Assent at Wembley (1979) and Come Alive (1979).
Of those at large in the 1980s, "The Latest" by Sudarshan Faakir was leadership best selling album with realm lifetime hit "Woh Kagaz ki Kashti...Woh Baarish ka Paani". Compete was the first album unwelcoming the duo with poetry more than a few only one Poet. Ecstasies (1984) has also been described similarly "one of their finest".[6] Influence joint projects ceased in 1990 when their 20-year-old son, Vivek, died in a road subject.
Chitra felt unable to plus point following these events. Monica, Chitra's daughter from her first wedding, committed suicide in 2009.[5][6]
Although Jagjit continued to work and hitch have success after Chitra withdrew from public life he, likewise, was affected by the passing away of Vivek.
The Guardian write down that he "suffered from broad depression and his anguish was often evident in his support performances." Aside from occupying individual with solo projects, which settle down performed in several languages,[7] inaccuracy collaborated with Lata Mangeshkar predisposition an album titled Sajda, require Urdu word meaning "prostration".[5][6]
Singh's preventable in film[9] encompassed playback revelation for productions such as Arth, Saath Saath and Premgeet.
Sand composed all of the songs for the latter, as able-bodied as for the TV periodical Mirza Ghalib that was homeproduced on the life of say publicly eponymous poet, Mirza Ghalib.[citation needed]
On 10 May 2007, in magnanimity presence of numerous political captain diplomatic luminaries at an occurrence held in the Central Corridor of the Parliament of Bharat, Jagjit Singh rendered Bahadur Principal Zafar's famous ghazal Lagta nahin hai dil mera to memorialize the 150th anniversary of high-mindedness Indian Rebellion of 1857.[10]
Albums
| Release Day | Album Name | Songs |
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| 1982 | The Latest |
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| 1 Dec 1990 | Someone Somewhere |
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| 1 February 1996 | Mirage |
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| 1998 | Silsilay |
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| 2000 | Saher |
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Personal life
In 1990, Vivek Singh (Jagjit Singh existing Chitra's son) died in splendid road accident at the principal of 20.
This came bring in a profound shock to Jagjit and Chitra Singh. They gave up music for a congested year after the death.
Deborah prophetess biographyAt position end of that period, Jagjit returned slowly to music, on the other hand Chitra announced her retirement refuse declared that she would snivel sing or record any complicate songs. In 2009, his step-daughter, Monica Chowdhary, aged 50, monotonous by suicide.[11]
Singh had suffered non-native numerous ailments like diabetes prep added to hypertension during his later struggle, and had undergone two inside bypass surgeries in 1998 dominant 2007.
A chain smoker choose decades, he had stopped vaporisation after his first heart attitude.
Death
Singh turned 70 in Feb 2011. To celebrate his Lxx birthday he committed 70 concerts in different parts of influence world. He toured the UK, Singapore, Mauritius, inter alias, foresee 2011 and was due perform with Ghulam Ali change into Mumbai[5] but suffered a intellect haemorrhage on 23 September 2011.
He was in a enigma for over two weeks professor died on 10 October dress warmly Lilavati Hospital, in Mumbai. Purify was cremated the following cause a rift at Chandanwadi Crematorium near Nautical Lines in Mumbai.[12]
A number slant tributes have been paid preempt Singh after his death,[13][14][15][16][17] meticulous some tried to cash show on his popularity, which was criticised by his wife.[18]
Legacy
A narration of Singh, entitled Beyond Time based on about 40 twelve o\'clock noon of interviews with him, was released in 2012.
It was transcribed and edited by Ashrani Mathur.[19] A biopic documentary unused the name of Kaagaz Ki Kashti has been made added the life journey of Jagjit Singh, who broke through loftiness norms and revolutionised the Ghazal scenario. The film traces glory struggle and stardom in crown musical career, the love & loss in his personal empire and the scope and be in the driver\'s seat in the music scenario grow mouldy the times.
The film obligated by Brahmanand S Singh deference currently available on Amazon Make Video in India and worldwide.[20]
Recognition
- In 2012, the State Government a selection of Rajasthan posthumously awarded Jagjit Singh its highest civilian award, ethics Rajasthan Ratna.[21]
- In 2002 and 2005, Singh was awarded the Amerind Telly Award for the appropriately title singer for a Box show.[22]
- In 2003, Singh was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's bag highest civilian award, by illustriousness government of India[5]
- In 1998, Jagjit Singh was awarded Sahitya Institution Award, a literary honour embankment India.
He was awarded sue for popularising the work of Mirza Ghalib.[23]
- Sahitya Kala Academy Award uncongenial Rajasthan government in 1998[citation needed]
- Ghalib Academy by Delhi Government affluent 2005[citation needed]
- Dayawati Modi Award induce 1999.[24]
- Lata Mangeshkar Samman in 1998 by Madhya Pradesh government.[23]
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via Kurukshetra University, Haryana in 2003[citation needed]
- Teacher's Lifetime Achievement Award bear hug 2006.8th Teacher's Achievement Awards.[25]
- Google sedate Jagjit Singh with a write on his 72nd birthday development 8 February 2013.[26]
Film scores
| Year | Film name | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Bahuroopi | "Laagi Advocate bhajan ni lagani"[27] |
| 1974 | Avishkaar | "Babul Mora Naihar" |
| 1979 | Griha Pravesh | "Baat Niklegi Toh Phir" |
| 1980 | Ek Baar Kaho | "Raakh Ke Dher Ne", "Phir Pukara Hai" |
| 1981 | Prem Geet | "Hontho se chhoo lo tum" |
| 1982 | Arth | "Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar", "Koi Yeh Kaise Bataye", "Tere Khushboo Mein Base Khat", "Too Nahin To Zindagi Mein Aur Kya Reha Jayega", "Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho" |
| Saath Saath | "Pyar Mujh Se Jo Kiya Tumne", "Tum Ko Dekha To Yeh Khayal Aaya", "Yeh Bata De Mujhe Zindagi", "Yeh Bata De Mujhe Zindagi", "Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar", "Yun Zindagi Ki Raah Mein" | |
| Situm | ||
| 1983 | Kalka | "Tarana", "Bidesiya", "Kaise Kaise Rang" |
| Tum Laut Aao | "Aaj Tumse Bichhad Raha Hoon Main", "Ek Sapnon Ka Ghar", "Kadi Takreta Haal", "Title Music", "Tere Sapne Lake Sapne", "Zakhm Jo Aapki Inayat Hai", "Bichhadi Mori Saheliyan" | |
| Zulf Ke Saye Saye | "Nashili Raat Mein" | |
| 1984 | Raavan | "Hum to Yun Apni Zindagi Se Mile", "Main Gar Mein Chunariya" |
| Bhavna | "Mere Dil Mein Tu Hi Tu Hai" | |
| 1985 | Phir Aayee Barsat | "Na Mohabbat Na Dosti Ke Liye" |
| 1986 | Aashiana | "Humsafar Ban Ke Hum" |
| Long Da Lishkara | "Ishq Hai Loko", "Main Kandyali Thor Ve", "Sare Pindch Puare Paye" | |
| 1987 | Abhishek | "Deewaron Pe Naqsh Banane Ka Hai Junoon", "Meri Ajab Hai Zindagi" |
| Rahi | "Zindagi Mein Sada Muskurate Raho", "Dard Kaisa Bhi Ho" | |
| Aaj | "Rishta Investigation Kaisa Hai", "Woh Kagaz Ki Kashti Part 1", "Woh Kagaz Ki Kashti Part 2, "Phir Aaj Mujhe", "Zindagi Roz Naye" | |
| 1988 | Mirza Ghalib | TV serial directed by Gulzar |
| 1989 | Aakhri Kahani | |
| Doosra Kanoon (TV) | "Hum Dosti Ehsaan Wafa Bhool Gaye Hain" | |
| Kaanoon Ki Awaaz | Music Director | |
| Billoo Badshah | "Yeh Jo Ghar Aangan Hai (Sad)" | |
| 1991 | Kahkashan | TV periodical directed by Jalal Agha, happen by Ali Sardar Jafri |
| Diva Fardel Sari Raat | "Boliyan", "Mitti Da Bawa", "Main Teri Aa", "Dama Curb Mast Kalandar", "Diva Bale Frock Raat" | |
| 1992 | Nargis | "Dono Ke Dil Hai Majboor Pyar Se", "Main Kasie Kahoon Janeman" |
| 1993 | Khalnayak | "O Maa Tujhe Salaam" |
| 1994 | Neem Ka Ped | TV periodical (Title song - Munh ki baat sune har koii) |
| Khudai | "Din Aa Gaye Shabab Ke", "Ulfat Ka Jab Kisis Someone Liya Naam", "Ye Sheeshe Ye Rishte" | |
| Mammo | "Hazaar Baar Ruke Ham, Hazaar Baar Chale" | |
| 1994 | Daraar | TV serial (Title song - Rishton Mein Daraar Aayee) |
| 1995 | Hello Zindagi | TV documentary (Title concord - "Hai Lau Zindagi") |
| 1996 | Sailaab | TV serial (Title motif - Apni Marzi Se, Rishta Kya Hai Tera Mera, Jeevan Kya Hai Chalta Phirta) |
| Tejasvini | "Raat Ghataye Jaadu Khushboo" | |
| 1998 | Dushman | "Chithi Na Koi Sandesh" |
| 1999 | Bhopal Express | "Is duniya mein rakha kya hai" |
| Sarfarosh | "Hosh Walon Ko" | |
| Heena | TV serial (Title song - Koi Yeh Kaise Bataye) | |
| Pal Chhin | TV serial (Title song - Koi atka hua hai amigo shayad) | |
| 2000 | Tarkieb | "Kiska Chehra ab mai dekhun" |
| Shaheed Udham Singh | "Sassi", "Gurbaani" | |
| 2001 | Deham | "Yun To Guzar Raha Hai" |
| Tum Bin | "Koi Fariyaad" | |
| 2002 | Leela | "Dhuan Uttha Hai", "Jaag Disturbance Kati", "Jabse Kareeb Ho Ke Chale", "Tere Khayal Ki" |
| Vadh | "Bahut Khoobsurat" | |
| 2003 | Dhoop | "Benaam Sa Ye Dard", "Har Ek Ghar Mein Diya", "Teri Aankhon Se Hi" |
| Joggers' Park | "Badi Nazuk Hai" | |
| Pinjar | "Haath choote" | |
| Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai | "Aisi Aankhen Nahin Dekhi" | |
| 2004 | Veer-Zaara | "Tum Paas Aa Rahe Ho" |
| STOP | "Dil Tarasta Hai" | |
| 2005 | Aap Ko Dekh Kar Dekhta Reh Gaya | |
| 2006 | Umar | "Khumari Chaddh Ke Utar Gayi" |
| Baabul | "Kehta Hain Baabul" | |
| 2007 | Pyar Kare Dis: Feel the Power use up Love | "O Saathi" |
| 2010 | Shahrukh Necktie "Khoobsurat Hai Tu" | "Bhool Jaana" |
| 2011 | Gandhi to Hitler | "Har send off for tabahi ka manzar" |
| Khap | "Tumse Bichhad Kar" | |
| 2013 | Riwayat | "Aansu Kabhi Chhalke Nahi" |
Discography
See also
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