MUMBAI: Ghazal maestro and Padma Bhushan awardee Jagjit Singh died here on Monday after a prolonged illness, saddening millions of fans across the country.
According to doctors, Jagjit’s health deteriorated all of a sudden after a massive brain haemorrhage and he breathed his last at the Lilavati Hospital here around 8 am on Monday. He had been undergoing treatment at the hospital since September 23 and had undergone dual life-saving surgeries.
Jagjit was 70 and is survived by his wife and singer Chitra Singh with whom he had teamed up in the 1970s and 1980s to create several musical melodies.
They were the first-ever successful husband-wife duo in nonfilmi Indian music. His son Vivek Singh died in a road accident in 1990 and that made his wife Chitra shun the limelight. Hailing from Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan, Jagjit quit his studies at the Kurukshetra University and went to Mumbai in 1965 to try his luck in music.