Also known as Zakir Hussain Allarakha Qureshi, Zakir Allarakha Qureshi, Zakir Hussain Qureshi, Zakir Allaraka Qureshi, Ustad Zakir Hussain
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Zakir Hussain Qureshi (9 March 1951 – 15 December 2024) was an Indian tabla player, composer, arranger, percussionist, music producer and film actor. The eldest son of esteemed tabla player Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain was widely regarded as the greatest tabla player of his generation and one of its finest percussionists. He produced music across multiple genres and contributed to popularizing…
Zakir Hussain (1951, Bombay, India), es un cantante ocasional y compositor indio, considerado el más grande ejecutante de tabla. Es hijo de otro reconocido tablista: .Sus trabajos abarcan música de la India, jazz, fusión y música del mundo. Ha compuesto soundtracks para los filmes In Custody y The Mystic Masseur de Ismail Merchant, Little Buddha de Bernardo Bertolucci, One Dollar Curry de Vijay Singh, Vanaprastham (The Last Dance), seleccionado para el Festival de Cannes en 1999, Saaz y Everybody Says I'm Fine. Fue coautor del tema de inauguración de los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta 1996 y miembro fundador de 'World Music Supergroup' Tabla Beat Science.Actualmente enseña tabla a estudiantes avanzados en San Francisco y Bombay y participa en Global Drum Project [1].
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Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951), son of tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, is the most famous classical tabla player in India (and, probably, in the world) today. He is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He has won many awards and much recognition for his contributions. Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison. <a href="https://w
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