Living Legend
"Sh. Vinod Sehgal's "
Most Memorable Visit to Academy
To anyone familiar with the crests and troughs of ghazal singing, Sehgal’s name is more than a name, it is a crescendo that few could achieve.
He is a star who almost turned into a supernova much too early, crumpling inwards before his time, leaving an afterglow that’s everlasting.
Those who have heard his ghazals like Shaayar-e-fitrat hun mein, from an album calledKahkashan, don’t care much about what he could have been. For such fans, his voice and music are enough.
He also sang the lead song of the film, Maachis. “Chhod aaye hum…, alongwith such singers as Suresh Wadekar and Hariharan.
Sehgal’s family comes from Sargodha in what’s now Pakistan, and both his father and grandfather used to sing, though not professionally.
As a child, his father Sohan Lal Sehgal would run to a nearby mohalla of Mirasis—ballad singers. At Partition, the family fled to Delhi, and then was sent to Ambala for rehabilitation.
To anyone familiar with the crests and troughs of ghazal singing, Sehgal’s name is more than a name, it is a crescendo that few could achieve.
He is a star who almost turned into a supernova much too early, crumpling inwards before his time, leaving an afterglow that’s everlasting.
Those who have heard his ghazals like Shaayar-e-fitrat hun mein, from an album calledKahkashan, don’t care much about what he could have been. For such fans, his voice and music are enough.
He also sang the lead song of the film, Maachis. “Chhod aaye hum…, alongwith such singers as Suresh Wadekar and Hariharan.
Sehgal’s family comes from Sargodha in what’s now Pakistan, and both his father and grandfather used to sing, though not professionally.
As a child, his father Sohan Lal Sehgal would run to a nearby mohalla of Mirasis—ballad singers. At Partition, the family fled to Delhi, and then was sent to Ambala for rehabilitation.
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