"Dharati Na Chhoru" produced by Suresh Amin, famously known by Jagjit Singh as "Jholi Vaaley Baba": known so, because he carried a red shoulder bag wherever he went.
Jagjit Singh was first offered to sing in a Gujarati film. He lived as a paying guest and his earlier assignments were singing advertisement jingles or performing at weddings and parties. His early struggle in the music industry, though not too harsh by his own account, still had its share of trials and tribulations. He arrived in Mumbai in 1965 in search of better opportunities for being a musician and singer. The Vice-Chancellor of Panjab UniversityPunjab University and Kurukshetra University, late Professor Suraj Bhan encouraged his interest in music. He learnt music under Pandit Chaganlal Sharma for two years in Ganganagar, and later devoted six years to learning Khayal, Thumri and Dhrupad forms of Indian classical music from Ustad Jamaal Khan of the Sainia Gharana school. Jagjit Singh's association with music goes back to his childhood. He is a post-graduate in history from Kurukshetra University. He went to Khalsa High School in Sri Ganganagar and then studied science after matriculation at Government College (Sri Ganganagar)Government College, Sri Ganganagar and went onto DAV College, Jalandhar to graduate in arts. He had four sisters and two brothers and he is known as Jeet by his family. His father, Amar Singh Dhiman, a government employee, was a native of the village of Dalla in Punjab (India)Punjab and his mother, Bachchan Kaur from Ottallan village, Samrala. Jagjit Singh was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. 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). 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 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 was awarded the Padmabhushan in 2003, the third highest civilian honour, for his contribution to music by the Government of India. He sang in Punjabi (his mother tongue), Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Nepali languages. 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 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.
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Read Full Bio Jagjit Singh (Febru– October 10, 2011) was a prominent Indian ghazal and film playback singer. Jagjit Singh (Febru– October 10, 2011) was a prominent Indian ghazal and film playback singer.