Indian bangla song chitra singh biography
Jagjit singh daughter death.
Chitra Singh
Bengali Indian ghazal singer
Musical artist
Chitra Singh (née Shome; formerly known as Chitra Dutta)[2] is an Indian ghazal singer.
Indian bangla song chitra singh biography
She, alongside her second husband, Jagjit Singh, popularized the ghazal genre.[3] Respectfully known as the "king and queen of the Ghazal world," the husband and wife duo created some of the most successful Indian music of the 1970s and '80s.
Personal life
Chitra was born as Chitra Shome into a BengaliHindu family. After completing her education, she was married to Debo Prasad Dutta, an executive in a leading advertising agency. The wedding was held in the mid-1950s, and the couple had a daughter, Monica, in 1959.[4]
While still married to Debo Prasad, Chitra met Jagjit Singh, at that time a struggling singer.
Jagjit Singh was from a Punjabi SikhNamdhari family and hailed from Sriganganagar in distant Rajasthan. They first met at a recording studio in 1967, by which time the marriage of th