Jagjit Singh Death Anniversary: Legend singer Jagjit Singh, who took ghazals from gatherings to people’s drawing rooms, was a cool person in his real life too. Coming from Punjab, Jagjit broke many social barriers in his personal decisions along with singing, and lived his life beyond many customs and traditions. Many times he enjoyed it and many times sorrows broke his heart but in the real sense he lived his life on his own terms.
He married singer Chitra Singh who was already married. From love to marriage, they faced many ups and downs and difficulties but their love remained steadfast.
feeling of love in love song
For the love song, Jagjit Singh had sung – Neither should there be a limit of age, nor should there be a bond of birth, when someone loves you, then see only the mind. These are not just the lines of a song but many meanings of Jagjit Singh’s life are also included in it. Are. When Jagjit fell in love with Chitra, she was married. She was someone’s wife, mother of a child.
This was how their first meeting was
Chitra had told in an interview that she first met Jagjit Singh in a studio to sing a jingle. After hearing Jagjit’s voice, he even refused to sing with him. During this time in 1968, Chitra was going through difficult times in her marriage. She had made up her mind to leave her husband Debo Prasad and later also took the custody of her daughter Monica.
At the same time, Jagjit fell in love with Chitra’s singing and her personality and even proposed to her, but Chitra refused. Jagjeet, who was deeply in love with Chitra, then decided that he would express his love in front of Chitra’s husband. According to a report in India Today, Jagjeet had asked Chitra’s husband – I want to marry your wife.
Both of them got married in 1969 and gave birth to son Vivek. The family members of this couple never accepted this marriage. An interesting thing is that Chitra used to lovingly call Jagjeet as Papa and Jagjeet used to call her Mummy.
Broke after son’s death
Everything was going well in both of their lives when bad news came in July 1990. Their son Vivek had died in a car accident. The family was shaken after Vivek’s departure at the age of 21. After this both of them stayed away from music for a long time. Chitra gave up singing after that. He said in an interview many years later – My throat had closed on its own.
Jagjit Singh suffered a brain hemorrhage in September 2011. He was treated in the hospital for several days but he could not be saved and he left this world on 10 October 2011.
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