Singh Is King, Jagjit Singh - The Ghazal King & More Options

[swarapriya]

Jagjit Singh - The Ghazal King

Jagjit Singh. He was a true legend in his own time. In a span of nearly 35 years, by several estimations, he released 80 plus discs. But during the same time, along with his singing wife Chitra (see the attached pictures below), he released nearly 400 albums. These included, apart from the individual albums, various collections of songs from his released albums. This number is truly an astonishing achievement.

Jagjit Singh, though popularly known for his ghazals, also had numerous devotional albums to his credit. He also was active in many films. He was occasionally participated in composing music for TV shows. He sang in many languages, but mostly in Hindi and his mother tongue, Punjabi.

He was decorated with innumerable awards. Prominent of these include Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Academy Award, Sangeet Natak Academy Award, Sahitya Kala Academy Award, and host of others.

I was encouraged by several members of this Forum to start a thread on Jagjitji. Finally I decided to take the plunge.

Jagjitji, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 70, left us with a legacy of overwhelming song contributions. Singhji was affectionately known as the Ghazal King. Because he lives through his work in our hearts forever, Singhji is still the King.

I will start this thread with Singhji’s discography. I split this into various parts, sorted alphabetically. Each part of the discography lists 20 albums. I will upload these parts below.

I will follow up this with a devotional album of Jagjitji.

Next, the discography…

[swarapriya]

Zulf Ke Saye Saye (1983)

I have only four songs from this film that I am uploading here. I don't have too many details of this movie except that its music was composed by Mohinderjit Singh. Well, who is Mohinderjit Singh?

Mohinderjit Singh (photo given below) is a singer, composer and violinist. He was trained by Husnlal Bhagatram as an instrumentalist and Hindustani vocalist. He composed music mostly for TV serials. His work was published as albums by many popular labels like BMG, CBS, T Series, etc. One of his songs, called “Sadbhavana”, with the theme of love and compassion for the country, was given the status of a National Song.

He invented a new musical instrument called “Naad Yogini” that on the surface looks like a violin. A description given on the instrument noted that it has “all the pathos of a violin, the resonance of a cello, and the smoothing seductiveness of a sarangi and a flute.”

I have listed in the table below the missing songs in red italics. If these are from this film, and if you can share, please kindly do so. Thanks.

Here are the four songs from this film...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Sep 13 2012, 08:36 PM