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How Zakir Hussain 'auditioned' for Mughal-e-Azam Zakir ... Mughal-e-Azam for what was almost an audition for the role of the young Prince Salim. Hussain recalled in Nasreen Munni Kabir's book ...

‘A Celebration of the Life and Music of Zakir Hussain’ takes place on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

FOLLOW: Zakir Hussain death LIVE updates - December ... “The combination of “Wah Taj!” with the dashing young Hussain’s curly locks flying about his face as his fingers flew across the ...

He left us too soon." Born on March 9, 1951, in Mumbai, India, Zakir Hussain was the son of the iconic tabla master Ustad Alla Rakha. From a young age, he displayed a remarkable affinity for the ...

Zakir Hussain was both, which is why this pioneer ... Violin doyenne Dr N Rajam recalled her first encounter with a young Zakir, then just eight years old. She had visited the home of Zakir ...

Credit: X/ShayarImran During a concert in India, Zakir Hussain’s tabla skin was damaged mid-performance. Instead of pausing, Zakir brilliantly improvised, telling a rhythmic story with his beats ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began ...

Join us as we celebrate the extraordinary life and timeless legacy of the legendary tabla virtuoso and composer Ustad Zakir ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain has left behind such a huge legacy with his “eternally dancing fingers” that his music is permanently housed in every music lover’s sensibilities.

In the early 1990s, Zakir Hussain created the album Soundscapes: Music Of The Deserts, drawing inspiration from natural landscapes. The tracks blended light classical music, Rajasthani folk ...