Name: Zakir Hussain Musician
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SKU: 266333
Rating: 4.3 (33 reviews)

Zakir Hussain was a genius student since his childhood. His father, Ustad Alla Rakha, was a legendary Tabla Player and started teaching him Pakhawaj when he was three years old.He has performed with many legendary maestros of music such as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pandit VG Jog, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, and many more.In his early twenties, he attained the peak of his popularity and started visiting the United States frequently and he had performed more than 150 concerts per year.His wife is also a professional Kathak dancer and a dance teacher. She had also been his manager for a long time.He had given a great contribution in raising the status of the Tabla players in the society, which earlier considered playing the Tabla as most contemptuous art.He has also collaborated with great artists such as Grateful Dead and Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane and once, with these artists, he played a jam session for four days while tripping on banned substances.He got associated with violinist L. Shankar, guitarist John McLaughlin, mridangam player Ramnad Raghavan, and legendary ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram and formed a fusion group named as Shakti, and on the 20th anniversary of this group, he introduced the world with the second version of the group named as  Remember Shakti, which accompanied artists like U. Srinivas, T.V. Selvaganesh, and Shankar Mahadevan.Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead, invited Zakir Hussain to create the special album called Global Planet Drum project, which featured legendary musicians from the different part of the world. This album released in 1991 on the Rykodisc label and went on to earn the 1992 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album, which is the first Grammy ever awarded in this category.He was also starred in several documentaries such as Zakir and His Friends, The Speaking Hand: Zakir Hussain, the Art of the Indian Drum and also co-starred in a film Heat and Dust.In 2016, Zakir Hussain was amongst few legendary musicians, who were invited by President Obama for the All-Star Global Concert at the White House.

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Zakir Hussain Musician

from Mumbai, Maharashtra

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