Jagjit Singh Audio Quiz: On his 70th birthday, a tribute to India’s ‘Ghazal King’

Jagjit Singh was born on Feb 8, 1941. Lend him your ear on today’s free music quiz, where we celebrate eight of his timeless hits. Can you name them all?

Eight songs. Eighty seconds. Are you a good listener?

Jagjit Singh is best known for reviving the ghazal as a modern genre. An admirer of Ghalib, he used the bol-pradhan (spoken emphasis) style to sing of love, loss and melancholia. In a career spanning forty years, Singh sang in Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Nepali, often flirting with new-age ideas — in 1987, he released ‘Beyond Time’, India’s first digitally recorded album. For his pioneering legacy, Singh was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 2003.

Today’s music quiz features eight song snippets from Jagjit Singh’s oeuvre. Listen keenly. Can you name at least 5 out of 8 tracks?

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