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Zakir Hussain

Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor, and composer

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born: 1951
died: 2024
age at death: 73
known for: composer, film actor, percussionist

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who zakir hussain is

Ustad Zakir Hussain Qureshi was an Indian tabla player, composer, arranger, percussionist, music producer and film actor who was based for much of his career in the San Francisco Bay Area. The eldest son of esteemed tabla player Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain was widely regarded as the greatest tabla player of his generation and one of its finest percussionists. He produced music across multiple genres and contributed to popularizing Indian classical music to a global audience.

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