In an era predominated by a handful of singers, singer and composer Jagjit Singh’s contribution to music can best be described as being genre defining. The ghazal, the prerogative of classical singers like Mehdi Hassan, Begum Akhtar, Angoori Bai and others and patronised by the literary elite, was brought into the mainstream thanks to Jagjit Singh’s efforts. His constant companion in his endeavours was his wife Chitra Singh, an accomplished singer herself. He handpicked the works of noted poets like Mirza Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir, Daagh Dehlvi right upto Sudarshan Fakir, Nida Fazli, Gulzar and Javed Akhtar, reaching across the demographics. Staying away from the usual tropes of sharab and shabab, his compositions spoke of the rites of passage… of loving, losing and learning, appealing to ghazal connoisseurs as well as to the masses. Jagjit’s style of composing and singing was what the learned dub as bol-pradhan (emphasis on words). Also, his raag-based renditions relied both on the strains of the saxophone and the guitar alongside the tabla and the sitar… The same fusion of melody and melancholy, he brought to films like Saath Saath and Arth in the ’80s, making it a character in the relationship-driven films of the era. After losing their only son Vivek Singh in a tragic road accident in 1990, a heartbroken Chitra stopped singing, while Jagjit took it on as a panacea for his pain. Just as his passion for horses and penchant for humour… were all but engagements to keep the sadness at bay… Around his ninth death anniversary, we pay a tribute to the maestro, who not only popularised the ghazal as a genre but also gave it a pride of place in Hindi cinema…
EARLY YEARS
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