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Zakir Hussain

ذاكر حسين

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Indian tabla maestro (1951–2024), eldest son of Alla Rakha, born in Bombay and based from the late 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area; a central figure of world music through Shakti and his collaborations across jazz and classical traditions, he received the Padma Vibhushan (2023) and won three Grammy Awards in 2024.

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musician
Region
South Asia
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    Sources

    • Zakir Hussain — English Wikipedia
    • Zakir Hussain — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Zakir Hussain — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Zakir Hussain — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Zakir Hussain”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zakir-hussain/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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