Jagjit Singh with His Father
Jagjit Singh Dhiman was born at Sri Ganganagar Rajasthan India (then Bikaner State into
a Ramgarhia family.His father Sardar Amar Singh Dhiman was a surveyor with
government's public works department and hailed from village Dalla, District
Ropar in Punjab and mother Sardarni Bachchan Kaur was a housewife who was
raised in a deeply religious family in Ottallan village near Samrala.
Educated initially at Khalsa High School and Government
College in Sri Ganganagar, Singh obtained an arts degree from DAV College in Jalandhar There
he began his professional career in 1961 by undertaking singing and composing
assignments at All India Radio's (AIR) Jalandhar station. Later,
he studied to obtain a post-graduate degree in history from Kurukshetra University in Haryana Throughout this time, and as a consequence of a natural talent that was spotted
by his father, Singh learned music initially from a visually impaired master of
Indian classical music, Pandit Chhaganlal Sharma and later from Ustad Jamaal
Khan of Senia Gharana who taught and
trained him in all the prominent styles of Hindustani Classical age years, he performed on stage and composed music.
Although his father, who was a government employee, had hoped that he would
become an engineer,Singh
pursued his passion for music relentlessly. Like all parents in Indian
middle-class families, his father aspired for him to become a bureaucrat.
However, he also encouraged Singh and his siblings to learn music.
In March 1965, and without the knowledge of his family Singh
moved to Bombay where there were many opportunities for music artists because of the Bollywood film
industry. He obtained work initially as a singer of advertising jingles and
later progressed to Playback Singing
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