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Jagjit Singh

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field hockey player (1944–2010)

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

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
80,790
Total plays
1,885,439

Tags

GhazalHindiIndianbollywooddesi

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,

via Last.fm · Jagjit Singh