He passed away on 10th October 2011 (8.00 am) after a brief treatment for brain haemorrhage. He passed away on 10 October 2011(8 am) at the age of 70 in Mumbai at Lilavati hospital after a prolonged illness. His last concert was held on Saturday 17th September,2011 in Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. He assisted Peta India in asking the Minister of Railways to enforce speed restrictions to prevent further elephant deaths from collisions with speeding trains.Д«efore this illness, his last major concert was held on 16th September, 2011 in Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai. MaryвЂ™s (Mumbai), Bombay Hospital, CRY, and ALMA (an organization that adopts under-privileged students for further education and development). He also lends active support to several philanthropic endeavors such as the Library at St. In addition to cultivating his own successful career, Jagjit Singh has been involved in guiding many new, talented singers such as Abhijeet, Talat Aziz, Ghanshyam Vaswani, Ashok Khosla, Siza Roy, Vikram Singh, and Vinod Sehgal. Sanu himself confessed that Jagjit singh offered him the first chance to sing. Jagjit Singh is accredited with finding a famous singer of modern times Kumar sanu. When, Mr Suresh Amin died in 1998 and Scad Consultants, Baroda, Organized a Live Concert by Jagjit singh in December 1998 вЂ“ Jagjit Singh paid a special Tribute to Mr Suresh Amin and dedicated the Scad Consultants Concert to Mr Suresh Amin by Singing the song ' Chitthi Na Koi Sandesh ', the perfect song to match his unawareness of Suresh AminвЂ™s Death. Mr Suresh Amin was from Baroda-Gujarat and was associated with Scad Consultants Pvt Ltd. Suresh Amin, famously known by Jagjit Singh as 'Jholi Vaaley Baba' : known so, because he carried a Red Shoulder Bag wherever he went. Jagjit Singh was first offered to sing in a Gujarati Film. He had four sisters and two brothers and he was known as Jeet by his family. Jagjit Singh was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan to Amar Singh Dhiman, a government employee, a native of Dalla village in Punjab (India) and his mother, Bachan Kaur from Ottallan village, Samrala. But Singh continued to charm audiences, singing with equal ease in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Gujrati, Sindhi and Nepali languages. The couple was considered to be pioneers of modern Ghazal singing and regarded as most successful recording artistes outside the realm of Indian film music.Д¬hitra stopped giving public performances after their only son, Vivek, died in a road accident in the early 1990s. Popularly known as the вЂGhazal KingвЂ™, Singh gained acclaim together with his wife, singer Chitra Singh. President A P J Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and dignitaries including former Prime Ministers, Members of Parliament, Foreign Ambassadors and High Commissioners were in attendance. On May 10, 2007, in a milestone joint session held in the historic Central Hall of IndiaвЂ™s Parliament (Sansad Bhawan), Jagjit Singh rendered the last Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah ZafarвЂ™s famous ghazal 'Lagta nahin hai dil mera' to commemorate the 150th anniversary of IndiaвЂ™s First War of Independence (1857). He mixed the words of legends like Ghalib, Qateel Shifai, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Nida Fazli and Sudarshan Faakir with melodious indigenous tunes and achieved a state where nothing came in between him and his listeners. Jagjit Singh broke this myth by coming up with songs such as вЂKaagaz ki kashtiвЂ™, вЂChaak jigar keвЂ™, вЂKal chadhanvi ki raat thiвЂ™, and вЂShaam se aankh me name si haiвЂ™.

Prior to Singh, ghazal singing was considered as an elite art, which was difficult for the common mass to understand due to high class Urdu and Persian. Recipient of Padma Bhushan award, Jagjit Singh was the man behind making the ghazal genre available and understandable to all.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2003. Jagjit Singh entered the music circuit at a time which was primarily dominated by Pakistani ghazal singers, and Indian singers were considered relatively lesser authentic than their Pakistani counterparts. He has sung in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali.

He is breathing with the aid of a ventilator.Д«orn on February 8, 1941, вЂthe ghazal kingвЂ™ was a singer, composer, activist and entrepreneur.

His condition was described as 'critical' and doctors continued to monitor him in the intensive care unit. Doctors at the hospital performed an emergency surgery on Singh. Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, 70, underwent a surgery at Lilavati Hospital in Bandra on Friday after he suffered a brain haemorrhage.

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