Jagjit Singh

Folk songs can be centuries old. They are passed from one generation to another. Many times, the areas of origin are known but who wrote it remains unknown. Yesterday I was in a ClubHouse room and someone sang mitti da bawa (Originally sung by Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh). She also mentioned that it is written by Shiv. I had my doubts as Shiv was a recent poet and such a thing would of course be documented somewhere. I checked his complete poetry collection and as expected it was not there. That led me to turn to Google and all over the internet it was the same information that it has been written by Shiv. ...

Beautiful words and sung equally beautifully sung by Jagjit & Chitra Singh pehle to apne dil ki raza jaan jaiye phir jo nigah-e-yaar kahe maan jaiye (raza - will, desire) pehle mizaaj-e- rahguzar jaan jaiye phir gard-e- raah jo bhi kahe maan jaiye (mizaaj - temperament, rahguzar - path. gard - dirt, raah - street) kuch keh rahi hain aapke seene ki dhadkanein mera nahi to dil ka kaha maan jaiye ...

Beauty of Bashir Badr saab’s poetry muhabbaton mein dikhaave ki dosti na mila agar gale nahi milta to haath bhi na mila gharon pe naam the naamon ke saath ohade the bahut talaash kiya koi aadmi na mila (uhde-(job) title) tamaam rishton ko main ghar pe chhod aya tha phir uske baad mujhe koi ajnabi na mila bahut ajeeb hai yeh qurbaton ki doori bhi wo mere saath raha aur mujhe kabhi na mila (qurbatein-closeness) ...

“kaun sahab nu aakhe ke inj nahi inj kar” (Literal translation is: Who can dare tell God that do it like this, not like that ?) How truly someone has put it in just a few words. A very very sad day for music and the music lovers. The “one man army”, the captain of Indian Ghazal singing Jagjit Singh is no more. And even sadder is the thing that there is no-one to carry forward his legacy. His untimely demise marks the end of an era in the Indian music. There is no one like him, of the same status, same repute. In our sub continent also, there are very few names; Mehdi Hasan already stopped singing due to his health. At this moment the singing in 2 countries was being headed by Ghulam Ali & Jagjit Singh and one of them just left us. I can’t describe in words what a tremendous loss it is. Only a month back, we saw him perform live with Ghulam Ali and I was not at all happy with his performance and complained a lot about it. Because I wanted him to sing the classics he created. I feel lucky to have seen him perform live thrice in my life. I can’t just accept that he is no more with us. ...

Just got back after watching Ghulam Ali & Jagjit Singh live in concert at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi. It probably was for the first time that both were coming together on a single stage. The concert started with Ghulam Ali and as usual he was amazing. He started with faasle aise bhi honge and then went on to sing dil mein ek lehar si uthi hai abhi, chupke chupke, legendary Ahmed Faraz’s phir kisi rahaguzar par shayad, hungama hain kyon barpa and so on . And believe me it was an amazing performance. If someone is there after Mehdi Hasan, he is Ghulam Ali. After one and half hour Ghulam Ali freed the stage for Jagjit Singh ...

dekha jo aaina to mujhe sochna pada khud se na mil saka to mujhe sochna pada uska jo khat mila to mujhe sochna pada apna sa woh laga to mujhe sochna pada mujhko tha yeh gumaan ke mujhi mein hai ik ana dekhi teri ana to mujhe sochna pada (ana - ego, self) dunia samjh rahi thi ke naraz mujhse hai lekin woh jab mila to mujhe sochna pada ik din woh mere aib ginaane laga ‘Farag’ jab khud hi thak gaya to mujhe sochna pada ...

A wonderful ghazal by Jagjit Singh (Lyrics by Hasti) pyar ka pehla khat likhne main waqt to lagta hai naye parindo ko udne main waqt to lagta hai jism ki baat nahi thi unke dil tak jana tha lambi doori tai karne mein waqt to lagta hai gaanth agar lag jaye to fir rishte ho ya dori laakh karein koshish khulne mein waqt to lagta hai hamne ilaaz-e-zakham-e-dil to dhoond liya lekin gehre zakhmon ko bharne mein waqt to lagta hai ...

Gulzar saab’s lyrics, sung by Jagjit Singh in Koi Baat Chale kya batayein k jaan gai kaise fir se dohraayein woh ghadi kaise kisne raste mein chaand rakha tha mujh ko thokar wahan lagi kaise kya batayein k jaan gai kaise waqt pe paaon kab rakha hamne zindagi moonh ke bal giri kaise kya batayein k jaan gai kaise aankh to bhar gai thi paani se teri tasveer jal gai kaise kya batayein k jaan gai kaise kya batayein k jaan gai kaise fir se dohraayein woh ghadi kaise ...