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Zakir Hussain Allarakha Qureshi (9 March 1951 – 15 December 2024) was an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer, and film actor. Widely regarded as the greatest tabla player of his generation and one of the greatest percussionists of all time, [1] [2] [3] he was known for bringing Indian classical music to a global audience.
Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer and Rakesh Chaurasia accept the "Global Music Performance" award for "Pashto" onstage during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Peacock Theater on Feb. 4, 2024 in Los Angeles.
Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.
Making Music is an album by Indian tabla player and composer Zakir Hussain recorded in 1986 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia , guitarist John McLaughlin and saxophonist Jan Garbarek .
Zakir Hussain, an Indian classical musician who has been called 'the greatest tabla player of his generation,' has died at age 73 of lung disease.
Zakir Hussain was the most famous and influential tabla player of the modern age. Ustad Zakir Hussain was more than a brilliant tabla player, he was a musical phenomenon who has changed the way we think about the tabla and the musicians who play it. It is difficult to think of anyone else in the world who has made the instrument tabla such a ...
Tributes pour in for tabla virtuoso and global cultural icon
The original lineup, formed in 1973, consisted of John McLaughlin on guitar, L. Shankar on violin and R. Raghavan on mridangam, [2] initially under the name "Turiyananda Sangit" [3] (which translates in English to "The pinnacle delight in music" [4]). Zakir Hussain was later added on tabla and the name was changed to Shakti (meaning "creative ...