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Family members, the music fraternity and fans bid a tearful farewell to ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh at his funeral here Tuesday. Jagjit Singh’s brother Kartar Singh along with his grandsons Armaan and Umer Chowdhary conducted his last rites. Jagjit Singh had lost his only son in a car accident in 1990 and considered Kartar’s family [...]

The soulful voice behind many a popular ghazal was stilled forever with the death of Jagjit Singh here Monday following brain haemorrhage. He was 70. Some of his songs like “Hontho se chhoo lo tum”, “Jhuki jhuki si nazar” and “Tumko dekha toh yeh khayal aaya”, continue to remain all-time favourites. His death left not [...]

BollywoodWorld.com, One filmmaker said it was Jagjit Singh’s songs that made his film touch millions of hearts, an actor said the ghazal singer was the king of soulful music, and yet another said it was a personal loss. Bollywood bid an emotional farewell to the singer after his death Monday, saying he never needed films [...]

Well known singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle Monday mourned the death of one of their own – renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh who passed away at a hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage at the age of 70, leaving a vacuum in the world of music. “I am in shock after hearing about [...]

Renowned singer Jagjit Singh, known as much for his ghazals and bhajans as for his work in Hindi cinema, died here Monday after a brain haemorrhage. He was 70. Jagjit Singh had been in hospital for several weeks.

BollywoodWorld.com, Ghazal king Jagjit Singh says he keeps his distance from Bollywood because he feels Hindi filmmakers are money-minded and don’t appreciate the genre any more. “Filmmakers have no taste for ghazals. A lot of youngsters like soft songs these days, but Bollywood has no interest in ghazals…the industry is only about making money. Sab [...]

New Delhi, Veteran musician Pandit Ravi Shankar, lyricist Javed Akhtar, ghazal singer Jagjit Singh and composer-singer Shankar Mahadevan met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here Thursday morning. Congress sources described the meeting as “a courtesy call”. They did not divulge details of the meeting. The meeting comes in the backdrop of an escalating controversy over Shiv [...]