More than two weeks after being admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai , the veteran Ghazal legend of Indian music Jagjeet Singh passes away today morning. He was seventy (70years). He had undergone a surgery for brain hemorrhage at the Lilavati Hospital on September 23.
It is reported that the singer had the complications of diabetes , hypertension and ischemic heart ailment. Jagjeet Singh achieved his popularity in 1970s and 1980s when he started to sing the Ghazal duet with his talented wife Chitra Singh.
In recent period, they were the most popular married couple singers in. Jagjeet Singh had sung so many Indian languages like Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali . He was honoured the third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2003 in India. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh have condoled their demise of Ghazal singer Jagjeet Singh. Every Indian feels that the death of Jagjeet Singh is the death of actual Ghazal Gharana which will be very difficult to fill. He was really a lyrical masterpiece who will remain forever everybody’s mind.
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