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Jagjit Singh (1941–2011) was an Indian male composer, singer, entrepreneur, and songwriter. He was educated at Kurukshetra University and was a follower of Sikhism. His musical genres included folk music and devotional songs. He played the tanpura, piano, and voice. Singh was married to Chitra Singh.
He received the Padma Bhushan award and was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer. His recordings were released by His Master's Voice, Polydor, Saregama, and EMI. He resided in Mumbai and Rajasthan. Singh was born in Sri Ganganagar and died in Mumbai from a cerebral hemorrhage due to natural causes.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Works
- 50
Top works
- Great Ideas and Theories of Modern Cosmology
- Indian music, traditions & trends
- Great ideas of operations research
- Great ideas in information theory, language and cybernetics
- Great ideas of modern mathematics, their nature and use
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Film & TV
Sound · Sri Ganganagar, Rajputana, British India
Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh (8 February 1941 – 10 October 2011), was a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, songwriter and musician. Known as the "Ghazal King", he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian ghazal singer Chitra Singh in the 1970s and 1980s. Their combination album comprising music from the films, Arth and Saath Saath is the HMV's largest selling combination…
Known for
- Kaagaz Ki Kashti — Himself2016
- Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai — Himself2002
- Satnam Shri Waheguru
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- India
- Active from
- 1941
- Active to
- 2011
Discography
- A Milestone1980
- Main Aur Meri Tanhai1980
- Prem Geet1981
- Arth1982
- Saath Saath1982
- Ecstasies1984
- Beyond Time...1987
- Gulzar's Mirza Ghalib1988
- Hope1991
- Their Earliest Recordings - Rare Gems: Ghazals1992
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 80,726
- Total plays
- 1,883,411
Tags
Jagjit Singh (February 8, 1941 – October 10, 2011) was a prominent Indian ghazal and film playback singer. He gained critical and popular acclaim together with his wife, Chitra Singh, as the first ever successful husband-wife duo in the history of recorded Indian music. Together, they are considered to be the pioneers of modern ghazal music and regarded as the most successful recording artistes outside the realm of Indian film music. He sang in Punjabi (his mother tongue), Hindi, Urdu, Bengali,
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage
· 1998 · cited 25,216x
- Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,689x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,119x
- Simple Combinations of Lineage-Determining Transcription Factors Prime cis-Regulatory Elements Required for Macrophage and B Cell Identities
· 2010 · cited 13,355x
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