Jagjit Singh
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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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1941-02-08
- Active to
- 2011-10-10
ghazalग़ज़ल
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 80,790
- Total plays
- 1,885,439
Tags
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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,
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Singh
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Jalandhar
- Award
- Arjuna Award
- Participant in
- 1964 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- field hockey
- Country for sport
- India
- Mass
- 58
- Height
- 170
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1944-01-01
- date of death
- 2010-11-16
- different from
- Jagjit Singh
- name in native language
- Jagjit Singh
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