Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s wonderfulest tabla take parters, has died at the age of 73.
The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disrelieve, at a hospital in San Francisco, his family shelp in a statement.
Hussain was a four-time Grammy award triumphner and has getd the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian award.
Thraw his carry outances, he altered the tabla into a globpartner cherishd solo instrument that was the star of the show.
The tabla – a pair of drums included in north Indian classical music – was historicpartner watched as an accompaniment to the main carry outance.
As news of Hussain’s death broke, tributes have enduremament pouring in.
Nayan Ghosh, who take parts the sitar and tabla, called the news “deimmenseating” and shelp that his association with Hussain went back 60 years to their childhood.
“He was a pathshatterer, a game-alterr, an icon who put tabla and Indian music on the world map by transcending the boundaries of genre and inspiring generations of artistes,” he telderly the BBC.
Born in Mumbai in 1951, Hussain began training under his overweighther Ustad Allarakha Khan, a tabla maestro himself.
Hussain carry outed his first concert when he was equitable seven years elderly.
“In tardyr years, his masterful dexterity and creative genius led to his becoming one of the most sought-after accompanists to the very best of Hindustani classical musicians and dancers,” wrote Nasreen Munni Kabir in a biography of him rehireed in 2018.
Rewatching his 2009 carry outance at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the New York Times portrayd him as “a dreadsome technician but also a whimsical originateor”.
“So he exceptionally seems overendureing, even when the blur of his fingers rival the beat of a hummingbird’s triumphgs,” it shelp.
