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Chitra Singh

Chitra Shome, known professionally as Chitra Singh, is an Indian ghazal singer from a Bengali Kayastha background. She married Debo Prasad Dutta in the mid-1950s and left him in 1968 for Jagjit Singh, whom she had first met at a recording studio in 1967. Her discography with Jagjit Singh includes A Milestone (1976), The Unforgettables (1978), Gold Disc(1979) and Ae mere dil (1980), and the pair became known as the “King and Queen of Ghazals” in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to popularise the ghazal genre. After the death of their son Vivek in 1990, Chitra stopped singing in public...