Renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, who was admitted to the ICU of Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital last week, passed away on Monday. He was 70. Jagjit Singh was admitted to the ICU reportedly due to a brain hemorrhage and he underwent an emergency neurosurgery on admission. He is survived by his wife Chitra Singh, with whom he had produced several record breaking albums. Their only son Vivek Singh had died in a road accident in 1990.

70-year-old renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on October 10, 201l in Mumbai after suffering a brain haemorrage some days earlier. Born in 1941 in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, Jagjit Singh gained acclaim together with his wife, another well-known ghazal singer Chitra Singh, in the 1970s and 1980s as the first ever successful duo act (husband-wife) in the history of recorded Indian music. With a career spanning over five decades and a repertoire comprising 80 albums, the ghazal singer has sung in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali languages. His popular ghazals include Meri zindagi kisi aur ki, Mere naam ka koi aur hai, Apni marzi se kahan apne safar ke hum hain, Wo jo hum mein tumme qaraar tha, Patta-patta boota-boota haal hamaara jaane hai, Hoshwalo ko khabar, etc. Jagjjit Singh has also sung for popular movies like Arth, Prem Geet, Sarfarosh and Tarqeeb. He was awarded India's third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2003.