Emotional Ghazals app info
agjit Singh was born Jagmohan in a religious middle class Sikh family on 8th February 1941 in Sriganganagar, Rajasthan. On a family priests advice his name was changed to Jagjit the priest could look into the crystal ball! His father saw a musical spark in him and arranged lessons for him in the guidance of Pt. Chaganlal Sharma. Later he learned from Ustad Jamal Khan of Senia Gharana considered to be a descendant of Mian Tansen. He listened to all the great masters of that time but was enamored by the style of Ustad Aamir Khan Saheb and shades of that style are visible in his singing.Chitra Singh (Shome) then, was born in Calcutta in a musical family where her mother was a trained vocalist. While she was a witness and a follower of the musical lessons at home, She has not learned the intricacies of the classical music through the tayyari way. She claims to be and is a vocalist by the ear, though in her later years she learned from people like K. Mahavir, Mohinderjeet & Jagjit Singh himself whose style she absorbed and a fantastic fusion was born.