Zakir Hussain Qureshi (9 March 1951 – 15 December 2024) was an Indian tabla player, composer, arranger, percussionist, music producer and film actor. 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. Often prefixed by the honorific title of 'Ustad', Hussain was awarded the United States National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the highest award given to traditional artists and musicians. He was also given the Government of India's Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1990 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Ratna Sadsya, in 2018. Hussain received seven Grammy Award nominations, winning four times, including three in 2024. He was described as the most recognizable exponent of the tabla by The Guardian. The New York Times marveled that the "blur of his fingers rivals the beat of a hummingbird's wings." Description above from the Wikipedia article Zakir Hussain, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фільмографія

• 2024Манкімен — Tabla Maestro
• Bombers — Somu Da
• 2018Jazz in Marciac 2018 - Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain, Chris Potter - — Tabla
• 2014Zakir Hussain: The SFJazz Sessions — Zakir Hussain, Producer
• 2012Chaalis Chauraasi — Toby
• 2008Remember Shakti - The Way Of Beauty — Musician
• 2007Parzania — Original Music Composer
• 2003Tabla Beat Science: Talamanam Sound Clash
• 2002Mr. and Mrs. Iyer — Original Music Composer
• 2001The Mystic Masseur — Original Music Composer
• 1999Vanaprastham — Music
• 1998Zakir and his friends — Music
• 1997Saaz — Himaan Desai
• 1994In Custody — Original Music Composer
• 1992Miss Beatty's Children — Music
• 1987Khayal
• 1983Heat and Dust — Inder Lal, Anne's landlord, Music Director
• 1979Апокаліпсис наших днів — Musician

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2006Way of Beauty - Shakti Timeless — self
• 2005A Tribute To Ismail Merchant — Self (archive footage)