Chitra Singh has been regarded as India based famous ghazal singer of Urdu and Hindi Ghazals. She is the queen of the ghazal king Jagjit Singh. They both together established their duet team. Today they have been considered as the advocators of modern ghazal singing. Chitra singh or Nee Dutta was born to a bengali family and who brought up in a culturally well groomed family. But she did not have any formal technical musiacal training.

In the late 1960s, when Chitra Singh met Jagjit Singh, they started their career together. For various advertisement they have lent their voice in singing jingles. With the release of the album The Unforgettables, their career geared up. It was an album that is comprised of many firsts. The most important thing about the album was that it bagged the honor of being the first album that indoctrinated the concept of Ghazal ghayaki. The ghazal gayaki has been mainly patronized by the elite group of people.

Apart from rendering ghazal, they have also composed as well as sang for many other languages like Hindi, Punjabi and Bengali. They have also released many albums in those languages also. Krishna, Chirag, Hey Ram, Shabads are the albums by them. These are mainly the devotional album. In its category, the album Krishna has been considered as one of the largest selling titles. Some albums to their credit are, A Milestone in the year 1976; The Unforgettables in the year 1978; Gold Disc in the year 1979; Ae mere dil in the year1980; The earliest recordings of Jagjit and Chitra singh; Live in concert with Jagjit Chitra Singh; Live at Wembley; Live at Royal Albert Hall; The Latest; Desires; Arth/Saath Saath; Krishna Bhajans; Chirag; Live in Trinidad; Main aur Meri Tanhaayee in the year 1981; The Latest in the year 1982; Ecstasies in the year 1984; A Sound Affair in the year 1985; Echoes in the year 1985-86, Live Recordings; Beyond Time in the year 1987; Mirza Ghalib in the year 1988; Passion / Black Magic in the year 1988; Ghazals from Films in the year 1989; Memorable Ghazals of Jagjit and Chitra in the year 1990; Someone Somewhere in the year 1990; H O P E in the year 1991.

But the couple underwent a traumatic turmoil. Their son Vivek Singh died of a road accident. As the after shock of this traumatic experience, Chitra Singh stopped rendering and confined herself into a private world of her own..

Many fans of this duo can intensely feel the void that has been created without the presence of Chitra Singh and her outstanding voice qulity. Yeh tera ghar yeh mera ghar, Tum aao to sahi, "Woh Nahin Milta Mujhe", Saare badan ka khoon, Mitti da bawa etc are the songs executed by Chitra Singh. Her voice is the perfect voice for executing ghazal. "Lab-e-Khamosh se" from the album Beyond Time has been considered as the best one. Her voice and participation with her husband has been said to be, `clear, touching and high-pitched voice provided the perfect blend along with Jagjit`s deep bass and smooth voice, to create an extraordinary effect in the form of their brilliant duets`. This has been resulted into thebsongs like "Ishq Mein Ghairat-e-jazbaat Ne", "Aaye Hain Samjhane Log", "Uski Hasrat Hai Jise Dile Se Mitha Bhi Na Sakoon". Within the range of ghazal singing Chitra singh`s voice contributed a special dimension. And this dimensions are important in the case of a "darbari mehfil" ghazals (as in Dil-e-Nadaan Tujhe, Dil He To Hai,Har Ek Baat Pe Kehteh Ho, from the album Mirza Ghalib) and made her unique.