Zakir Hussain
Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor, and composer (1951-2024) · India · Actors · Died at 73
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Something wrong?Ustad Zakir Hussain Qureshi was an Indian tabla player, composer, arranger, percussionist, music producer and film actor who was based for much of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Monkey ManFilm, 2024Tabla Maestro2023Padma Vibhushan in artAward2022Kyoto Prize in Arts and PhilosophyAwardSangeet Natak Akademi FellowshipAward2019
BombersSeries, Somu Da2018
Jazz in Marciac 2018 - Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain, Chris Potter -Film, Tabla2014
Zakir Hussain: The SFJazz SessionsFilm, Producer2012
Chaalis ChauraasiFilm, Toby2008Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music AlbumAward
Remember Shakti - The Way Of BeautyFilm, 20082006Kalidas SammanAward
Way of Beauty - Shakti TimelessFilm, 20062005
A Tribute To Ismail MerchantFilm2003
Tabla Beat Science: Talamanam Sound ClashFilm2002Padma BhushanAward1999National Heritage FellowshipAward1997
SaazFilm, Himaan Desai1990Sangeet Natak Akademi AwardAward1988Padma Shri in artsAward1987
KhayalFilm1983
Heat and DustFilm, Inder Lal, Anne's landlord1951Born9 March 1951Also in Deutsch
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Ustad Zakir Hussain Qureshi was an Indian tabla player, composer, arranger, percussionist, music producer and film actor who was based for much of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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 Indian classical music to a global audience.
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