India’s current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur are known to be his avid admirers.
He is the only composer and singer to have composed and recorded songs written by Prime Minister – Atal Behari Vajpayee, also a critically acclaimed poet – in two albums, Nayi Disha (1999) and Samvedna (2002).
With a career spanning over five decades and a repertoire comprising 80 albums the range and breadth of his work has been regarded as genre-defining. Widely credited for the revival and popularity of Ghazal, an Indian classical art form, through his music in landmark films such as Prem Geet (1981), Arth and Saath Saath (1982), and TV serials Mirza Ghalib (1988) and Kahkashan (1991), Jagjit Singh is considered to be the most successful ghazal singer and composer of all time, in terms of both critical acclaim and commercial success. He was awarded India’s third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2003. He has sung in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali languages.
Together, they are considered to be the pioneers of modern Ghazal singing and regarded as most successful recording artistes outside the realm of Indian film music. Popularly known as “The Ghazal King” he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian Ghazal singer Chitra Singh, in the 1970s and 1980s, as the first ever successful duo act (husband-wife) in the history of recorded Indian music. Jagjit Singh ( Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: जगजीत सिंह) ( born February 8, 1941) is a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, composer, music director, activist and entrepreneur. Jagjit Singh performing at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 12 September 2008 Courtesy: HAE Live UKĬomposer, Singer, Music Director, Activist, EntrepreneurĮMI, HMV, Saregama, Universal Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Polydor, TIPS, Venus, T-Series The show was again telecast on Star Plus from 22 June 2020 during the lockdown due to coronavirus.For other uses, see Jagjit Singh (disambiguation). The show stars Mukul Nag as Sai Baba of Shirdi. Sai Baba - Tere Hazaron Haath (English: Sai Baba - You Have Thousands Hands) is an Indian Hindi television series which premiered on 9 October 2005 on Star Plus. WikiMili Sai Baba (TV series) Last updated OctoSai Baba
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