But Zakir owed his talent to his father who was a devout worshipper of Goddess Saraswati. Once, during an interview, Zakir Hussain remembered how his father on his birth, did not utter azaan ...

The late tabla maestro Zakir Hussain once shared a fascinating story about his father, Ustad Alla Rakha, and his unique way of worshipping Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and music.

Zakir Hussain is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon and one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians. The foremost ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked ... just home from the hospital. His father, the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha, started singing rapid ...

Zakir Hussain timeline: Life and times of the tabla maestro His other two brothers, Taufiq and Fazal, are also noted percussionists but Hussain took his father’s legacy to the next level by ...

Zakir Hussain, the renowned tabla maestro, was known for his musical genius and humility. Trained by his father Alla Rakha from a young age, Hussain's music transcended genres. He was revered by ...

Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished ... Hussain was born in 1951 in Mumbai and was taught how to play the instrument by his father at the age of 7. A child prodigy, he began ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla ... Born in Mumbai in 1951, Hussain began training under his father Ustad Allarakha Khan, a tabla maestro himself. Hussain described growing ...