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Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951), son of tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, is the most famous classical tabla player in India (and, probably, in the world) today. He is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He has won many awards and much recognition for his contributions.

Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison. In the 1970s he recorded with an American psychedelic band called Shanti, with John McLaughlin in Shakti, with Shankar in the Diga Rhythm Band, with Mickey Hart on his Rolling Thunder album, and on the soundtrack for the movie Apocalypse Now. Shakti reunited in 1998 under the name Remember Shakti. Zakir Hussain has also continued to perform on many of Mickey Hart’s albums, including Planet Drum, and on numerous recordings by John McLaughlin.

In 1992, Zakir Hussain founded Monument Records to produce live concert performances by masters of the classical music of India. The label presents Zakir’s own world percussion ensemble, The Rhythm Experience, both North and South Indian classical recordings, Best of Shakti, and a Masters of Percussion series.

He has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Vasant Rai, Imrat Khan, Ravi Shankar, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, David Grisman, Billy Cobham, Jan Garbarek, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kronos Quartet, the Hong Kong Symphony and the New Orleans Symphony.
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  • Kassandra_

    @eqsmetal If one uses a word as much as you do, one should think he knows how to write it. It's "fuckin, fucking or fuck" :) I lived 9 years in India & yes I met tabla masters playing as good as Zakir. But do you think the guys you're listening to don't need money ? Play music and concerts for fun and for free :) ?? Like Breakin Benjamin, 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, Seether..... "Kill him and I'll pay the guy money who's killing him" :) Then start earning some money. Probably nobody is killing Zakir for free. Why don't you do it yourself ? Or aren't they not yet letting you out on your own from the psychic ward you're in ? ;-)

    November 2011

  • Shamatha

    eqsmetal, can you explain your remark please ?

    October 2011

  • aktifistanbul

    Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion Konseri, Aya İrini Müzesi, Avea Sıra Dışı Müzik Konserleri, 2 Kasım 2011, Çarşamba . Detaylı Blgi İçin...aktifistanbul.com

    October 2011

  • WellDressedMan

    March 17 - Zakir Hussain & Niladri Kumar @ George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts

    January 2011

  • Kor21

    just wow

    January 2011

  • eqsmetal

    fuck this fucken' tabla master....................we can easily find guys like zakir in india ........:P:P this bastards only need money .they adore money not music..........:):) kill him ......i'll pay the guy who 'll kill zakit tabla gandu master ...........:):) maa ka yaar.,pehn jka rakhwala zakir baba ..............:):) hail metal fuck bollywood ............greetin'z from india

    November 2010

  • nfzanna

    nice

    July 2010

  • pressF1

    Zakir Hussain has a most bodacious nose.

    May 2010

  • mdrosa

    amazing see him playing. wish one day he came to play in Brazil

    October 2009

  • DirtyPockets

    amaaaazing percussionist! If he collaborated with Jaki Liebezeit, I think my soul would explode instantaneously

    September 2009

  • skinnydrifter

    :)

    August 2009

  • ohh1972

    Very nice

    August 2009

  • aotiv

    Role model in his music and lifestyle. He's such an incredible performer!!!

    April 2009

  • 1g0g

    Zakir Hussain - спасибо!

    April 2009

  • onerom_lacroix

    Great musician. :)

    April 2009

  • ZurDruid

    TEENTAL ~!!!!!!! FAST TEMPO !!!!!!

    March 2009

  • phillip360

    ♫ nourish, glue and inflate the soon to be estrus and electrified 'pataphysics group ♫

    January 2009

  • trueinstein

    from Tabla Beat Science

    October 2008

  • sdf1013

    One of the leaders of the legendary "Diga Rhytm Band"

    August 2008

  • nevrasezer

    Zakir Hussain's concert with group Taksim Trio as part of Istanbul Jazz festival was utterly magnificient, it felt as if the Byzantine Church of Aya Irını had been waiting for that magical night of music for centuries, the night when all doors of heaven had opened up via music.

    July 2008
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