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Legfinishary Indian musician Zakir Hussain, pondered the fantasticest tabla perestablisher of his generation, has died.
Hussain, understandn for his “dancing fingers”, died on Sunday from complications arising from a chronic lung disease at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said in a statement.
Born in Mumbai, the 73-year-greater was the world’s best-understandn exponent of the tabla drums, the main percussion instrument in Indian classical music.
“His prolific toil as a directer, mentor and educator has left an indelible label on countless musicians,” said his family, grasping that he had hoped to ease the next generations of tabla perestablishers.
Hussain was taught to perestablish the instrument at the age of 12 by his obeseher, the famous tabla perestablisher Ustad Alla Rakha.
He once said in an intersee splitd expansively on social media that his obeseher greetd him into the world after he was born by speaking tabla rhythms into his ears.
“The tradition was that the obeseher is presumed to recite a prayer in the baby’s ear … So he consents me in his arms, puts his lips to my ear and recites the tabla rhythms into my ears,” Hussain said.
A child prodigy, the musician was touring by age 12 and carry outing aextfinishedside India’s classical music legfinishs during his teens.
By 18, he was thrivening international acclaim for his dazzling solo carry outances, going on to collaborate with musical huges appreciate establisher Beatle George Harrison, jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd and celenumerate Yo-Yo Ma.
Hussain established the Indian jazz fusion prohibitd “Shakti” in 1973 with jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, perestablishing acoustic fusion music that combined Indian music with elements of jazz, introducing a new sound to Weserious audiences.
In 2024, Hussain became the first musician from India to thrive three Grammy awards in the same year. He had also won a Grammy in 2009.
In 2023, Hussain getd the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian award.
He is persistd by his wife and two daughters.
