He jgot his early assignments to sing for advertisement jingles or executing at weddings and parties. Jagjit Singh came down to Mumbai in the year 1965 with a dream of establishing himself as a musician and singer as well. Acknowledging his talent the Vice Chancellor of Punjab and Kurukshetra University, Late Professor Suraj Bhan supported him to persue music further. Then after he consecreted six years to learning Khayal, Thumri and Dhrupad forms of Indian Classical Music from Ustad Jamaal Khan of Sainia Gharana. For two years in Ganganagar he received training in music under the expert tutelage of Pandit Chaganlal Sharma.
But Jagjit Singh's passion for music was with him since his childhood. from Kurukshetra University, Haryana he also obtaind a post-graduate degree in history. After passing matriculation, he studied Sciences from Government College, Ganganagar and went for graduation to DAV College, Jalandhar in arts stream. Jagjit Singh studied at Khalsa High School at Ganganagar. It was his father's wise decision to become a bureaucrat by joining the Indian Administrative Service. Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi languages, and Gujarati language are the languages in which Jagjit Singh has executed songs. He was born to father Sardar Amar Singh Dhiman, who was employed with the Government of India, hailed from Dalla village in Ropar district of Punjab and his mother Bachchan Kaur came from a deeply religious Sikh family of Ottallan village near Samralla. Jagjit Singh was born on 8th February, in the year 1941 in Ganganagar, then in Rajputana in British India. He has been counted one amongst the most popular ghazal singers of the world. Jagjit Singh is a name that has been considered as the Ghazal King.
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