Some things just stay with you...
We grew with his voice, Jagjit Singh. My heart skipped a beat when I read about his demise. Feels like I have lost something, am actually sad. The immortal ' Hoto se choo lo tum ' was on the lips of every kid in my school. I still remember watching that song in 'Chitrahaar', the serial on the B&W TV in my house. His reverberating voice in ' Tumko dekha to ye khayal aaya ' would instantly create a typical 'Jagjit romance' atmosphere. Though I have always carried his impression as a melancholy singer, thanks to his first-love-in-music Ghazals, and sometimes even made fun of him by calling his voice depressive; one had to admit his outright supremacy amongst the contemporary singers of his genre, when one had heard ' Kagaz ki Kashti ' and ' Main nashe me hun ' and ' Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho ' and ' Hazaron Khwaishe '. One of my friends commented, his throat had a built-in amplifier and echo system. :-) Some things are ...