But it was not meant to be. Zakir Hussain could have been young Salim in 'Mughal-e-Azam' His father, the tabla legend Alla Rakha, intervened and said his son was going to be a musician.

For Ajmal Raheem, another young professional percussionist from Kozhikode city, the way Zakir Hussain globalised tabla by assimilating it with various other popular genres continues to be the ...

Sometime in the 1970s, Zakir Hussain, a young and rising tabla virtuoso, was travelling solo to Benaras for a prestigious concert with the legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Worried ...

Zakir Hussain, a prolific Indian ... a tabla master himself, Hussain learned to play from his father at a young age. Described in the statement as a "child prodigy," his professional career ...

Dr Avdhesh Bansal, a senior consultant in ... Author Sandhya Rao’s book, ‘Zakir and His Tabla’, traces the life of a young Zakir Hussain and his relationship with his father and mentor ...

Pictures by Subhendu Chaki Zakir Hussain is playing a game of cards on the floor of a bus with a very young Rashid Khan. V.G. Jog is laughing hard. Ajay Chakraborty is shaving Shujaat Khan. Vijay ...

Ustaad Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players and ... I remember seeing them as a young man and [it was] just unbelievable. McNally: I got to see it once on Alla Rakha’s 70th ...

Zakir Hussain ... The eldest son of legendary tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha, Hussain was born in Mumbai. He began performing at a young age, accompanying some of India’s greatest musicians ...