If it is a Sikh shabad, there will be verses by Guru Nanak. If he is singing a Hare Krishna bhajan, it will most likely be one written by Surdas or Meerabai. Although a shrewd experimenter when it comes to usage of instruments and style, he is a purist about language. Jagjit overshadows everyone else in the world of music by his insistence on choosing refined poetry as lyrics. His place in history is acknowledged for preserving the ghazal as an art and re-igniting the Urdu language as a living symbol of our rich heritage. It is no exaggeration to claim that Padma Bhushan awardee Jagjit Singh has single-handedly kept literary forms of languages alive where government education policies and NGO efforts have miscarried. The power of Jagjit`s magical compositions has introduced Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and Bengali to the uninitiated.
Multitudes of his fans across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, for whom Gujarati is like Greek or Latin, are seeking out lexical aids to decipher the deep philosophical lyrics of Mareez, which Jagjit has rendered in simultaneously sombre and uplifting moods. With the release of the Gujarati ghazal album “Jeevan Maran Chhe Ek”, Jagjit Singh has reasserted his position as a living musical genius of the entire Indian subcontinent.
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