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Jagjit Singh
12+ albums
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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, Gujarati and Nepali languages. He was awarded the Padmabhushan in 2003, the third highest civilian honour, for his contribution to music by the Government of India. He is considered to be the most successful ghazal singer of all time, in terms of both critical acclaim and commercial success, having made the genre synonymous with his name during a career spanning over four decades. He is the only composer and singer to have composed and recorded songs written by an incumbent Prime Minister - Atal Behari Vajpayee, also a critically acclaimed poet - in two albums, "Nayi Disha" (1999) and "Samvedna" (2002). He is also the first Indian composer, and together with his wife Chitra Singh, the first recording artist in the history of Indian music to use digital multi-track recording for their (India's first digitally recorded) album, "Beyond Time" (1987). Early years and background Jagjit Singh was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. His father, Amar Singh Dhiman, a government employee, w
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