{"id":137713,"date":"2024-12-16T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137713"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:37:54","slug":"legendary-tabla-player-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137713","title":{"rendered":"Legendary tabla player dies at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Zakir Hussain, one of the world&#8217;s greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said in a statement.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Hussain was a four-time Grammy award winner and has received the Padma Vibhushan, India&#8217;s second-highest civilian award.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Through his performances, he transformed the tabla into a globally loved solo instrument that was the star of the show.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The tabla &#8211; a pair of drums used in Indian classical music &#8211; was historically viewed as an accompaniment to the main performance.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As news of Hussain&#8217;s death broke, tributes have begun pouring in.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Nayan Ghosh, who plays the sitar and tabla, called the news &#8220;devastating&#8221; and said that his association with Hussain went back 60 years to their childhood.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;He was a pathbreaker, a game-changer, an icon who put tabla and Indian music on the world map by transcending the boundaries of genre and inspiring generations of artistes,&#8221; he told the BBC.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Grammy winning composer Ricky Kej called him &#8220;one of the greatest musicians and personalities India has ever produced&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was &#8220;a true genius who revolutionised the world of Indian classical music&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi said Hussain&#8217;s death was &#8220;a great loss for the music world&#8221;, while the US embassy in India said he was a &#8220;true maestro&#8221; and would be &#8220;forever in our hearts&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Born in Mumbai in 1951, Hussain began training under his father Ustad Allarakha Khan, a tabla maestro himself.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Hussain described growing up in an &#8220;atmosphere of music 24 hours a day&#8221;. By age seven, he was performing in concerts alongside his father.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;From the age of seven, I sat on the stage with Abba whilst he played with so many greats. It was a lived experience for me, and it allowed me to absorb all that I had heard over the years,&#8221; he told Nasreen Munni Kabir, his biographer, in 2018.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As a teenager, he got an opportunity to perform with legendary Indian sitarist and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar. By 19, he was <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ums.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zakir_FINAL.pdf\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">playing <!-- --><\/a>more than<!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ums.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zakir_FINAL.pdf\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\"> 150 concerts a year<!-- --><\/a>,<!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ums.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/zakir_FINAL.pdf\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\"> <!-- --><\/a>both in India and internationally.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As his footprint grew, he contributed to the soundtracks of several films, performed solo and collaborated with artists on the global stage. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">His 1992 album Planet Drum with drummer Mickey Hart won a Grammy in the inaugural category of the &#8220;Best World Music Album&#8221;. He also performed with legendary artists like George Harrison of the Beatles, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Van Morrison.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Hussain went on to earn seven Grammy nominations, winning four of them.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Speaking to the BBC in 2016 about his global popularity, he said, &#8220;this is music&#8217;s appeal, not mine. I am a worshipper of music, who presents it in front of people.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Biographer Nasreen Munni Kabir  noted that in his later years he became &#8220;one of the most sought-after accompanists to the very best of Hindustani classical musicians and dancers&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Reviewing his 2009 performance at New York&#8217;s Carnegie Hall, the New York Times described him as &#8220;a fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;So he rarely seems overbearing, even when the blur of his fingers rival the beat of a hummingbird&#8217;s wings,&#8221; it said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;I am one of those musicians who came at the cusp of a great change in the music world and I was carried on that wave,&#8221; Hussain once recalled. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;I had the good fortune of establishing a very unhurried relationship with music, and at the same time, the wave took me places.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2exzm9r043o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zakir Hussain, one of the world&#8217;s greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. 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