The first 'dhaaki' to receive the Padma award and break barriers by encouraging women to play the dhaak, dedicated the award ...

He added, “It was a very special moment for me, as it was announced in front of my father and Pandit Ravi Shankar Ji, two of my biggest inspirations.” Also Read: When Zakir Hussain credited ...

He got really excited. My father somehow managed to send the message to Pandit Ravi Shankar Ji on stage.” Zakir Hussain added,“Panditji (Pandit Ravi Shankar) announced my Padma Shri on stage.

Ravi Shankar’s favoured collaborator – he played with him at Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh; Zakir’s mother, Bavi Begum, changed his surname to Hussain on the advice of a Muslim saint ...

Musical maestros, Ustad Zakir Hussain, left, and Pandit Ravi Shankar, right, performed together after a gap of 15 years in Mumbai, Maharashtra on Feb. 11, 2006. Hussain's groundbreaking project in ...

Zakir Hussain, the legendary tabla virtuoso and ... A child prodigy, he collaborated with Indian classical icons like Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, and Shivkumar Sharma and global musicians ...

Zakir Hussain Qureshi was born on March 9, 1951, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He was the eldest son of Ravi Shankar's longtime tabla drummer Alla Rakha Qureshi. His mother, Bavi Begum ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla ... who served as sitar master Ravi Shankar’s accompanist during the peak of Shankar's career, according to the Allarakha Foundation.

In a career that spanned over six decades, Zakir Hussain worked with not just India’s musical stalwarts like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan but also legends like George Harrison ...

Hulton Archive via Getty Images Zakir Hussain Alla Rakha Qureshi was born in Bombay, now Mumbai, on March 9 1951; his father was the celebrated tabla player Alla Rakha, Ravi Shankar’s favoured ...