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 Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed away on Decembe 15 ... this was the first mixed marriage. So more than my father, it was my mother who had a tough time with it. It was very difficult ...

To say that music was instilled in Ustad Zakir Hussain right from the moment he was born, won't be wrong. And credit goes to his father, tabla icon Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi, popularly known as ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India's most ... In an interview that was shared widely on social media in India, Hussain says his father welcomed him into the world after he was born ...

Zakir Hussain was born on March 9 ... He also learned to play the mridang (classical percussion instrument) from his father at the age of 3 and began performing at concerts by the age of 12.

In another interview, Zakir Hussain had recalled an incident when he was 12 years old. He had gone to a concert with his father. Music stalwarts like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ...

Zakir Hussain was the scion of Hindustani ... listening to cassette tapes of lessons from his adolescence. Like his father, Hussain sought to spread awareness of both Hindustani and Carnatic ...

Tabla maestro and internationally acclaimed musician Ustad Zakir Hussain, who passed away in a San Francisco hospital on Sunday following multiple health issues, blurred global boundaries with his ...

For tabla maestro Pt Yogesh Samsi, the weekend has been busy. A solo recital in Mumbai at the joint barsi of Ustad Amir ...

Zakir Hussain was pivotal in Ramnath’s transformation ... He gave his life to music as his father did before him. Here was an artist who became the music, he embodied tabla to the point that ...

Obituary: Zakir Hussain, Hindustani scion extended reach ... Hussain was taught tabla, or Indian hand drumming, from the age of 7 by his father, Alla Rakha, also a tabla virtuoso and accompanist ...

Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain, widely regarded among the greatest ... and started learning the tabla from a young age from his father Ustad Allah Rakha, who was also a famous tabla player.