Jeet Singh Negi
Indian composer (1925-2020)
Jeet Singh Negi (2 February 1925 – 21 June 2020) was a music composer, singer, lyricist, writer and director from the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. He is considered to be the father of modern Garhwali folk music.
Early life
Jeet Singh Negi was born on 2 February 1925 in Ayal village in Paidalsyun in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India to Sultan Singh Negi and Roopdeyi Negi. He received his education at various places like Pauri Garhwal (India), Maymyo (present day Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar) and Lahore (Pakistan).
Music career
Negi began his career in the late 1940s. Negi is the first Garhwali singer whose compilation of six Garhwali folk songs was recorded on gramophone by the Young India Gramophone Company of Bombay in 1949. He was the first to give voice to Garhwali language and sentiments as far back as the 1940s and became a Garhwali institution in Dehradun in the post-independence period.
Negi also worked as a deputy music director at National Gramophone Company, Mumbai.
Major works
His play Bhari Bhool was first staged in 1952, at Damodar Hall, Mumbai in the program of Garhwal Bhratri Mandal. The play was instant hit and the drama stirred not only the mindset of migrated Garhwali Mumbaikars but across India, migrated Garhwali became aware about the importance of drama in their cultural programs.
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