about the famous maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain

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1. Famous Maestro
Ustad
 Zakir Hussain 
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2. Early life and Education:
Ustad Zakir Hussain was
born on 9 March 1951 in Mumbai. In Punjab
family
.
Hussain
was born to 
tabla

maestro

Ustad Alla Rakha. His

mother's
name was
Bavi Begum.
He attended St. Michael's High School
in
Mahim and briefly attended St.Xavier’s college ,Mumbai.

• Hussain
was a child prodigy.
His
father taught
him Pakhawaj from
the age of 3 years.
• He
gave his first concert at the age of seven and
was
deemed a child prodigy. He was touring by
the
age of eleven.
•He
planned to study for a Ph.D. but instead he
moved
to the Bay Area to accompany 
Ali Akbar
Khan, who
was in need of a tabla player

3. Personal life
Zakir
Hussain married
Antonia Minnecola,

a Kathak dancer
and teacher, who is also his
manager.
They have two daughters, Anisa Qureshi
and
Isabella Qureshi.
Zakir
Hussain has two brothers:
Ustad Taufiq Qureshi,
a percussionist and
Ustad Fazal Qureshi,
also a tabla player

4.  
SOUNDTRACKS:
He
has composed soundtracks for
several
movies, most notably 
In Custody and The Mystic
Masseur by Ismail Merchant,
and
has
played tabla on the soundtracks
of Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse
Now,
 
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little
Buddha, and
other films.

5. AWARDS:
Ustad Zakir Hussain is
an Indian 
tabla virtuoso,
composer, percussionist, music
producer,
film actor and eldest son of 
tabla player Ustad
Allah Rakha.
•He
was awarded the
Padma Shri in
1988, and the
Padma Bhushan in
2002, by
the
Government of India presented by President Abdul Kalam.
•Awarded
the
 
Indo-American Award
 in
1990 in recognition for his
outstanding
cultural contribution to relations between the United States
and
India.

6. AWARDS:
•On
18 January 2017, 
San Francisco
Jazz Center gave
Hussain a


Life time Achievement Award
•In
2019, 
Sangeet Natak Academy,

India's
National Academy of Music,
Dance
& Drama, honoured Ustad Zakir
Hussain
with the Academy Fellow award,
also
known as the
Academy Ratna,
for
the
year 2018.

7. Concerts:
Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain performs
during a concert 'A Homage to Abbaji' - Ustad
Allarakha', in Mumbai.
Legendary tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain
performs at a fusion concert 'Shakti', in Kolkata.

8. Concerts:
Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain along with Grammy
Award-winning Indian percussionist Thetakudi
Harihara Vinayakram pay homage to Ustad Alla
Rakha Khan on his 14th death anniversary in
Mumbai.
Singer and music composer Shankar Mahadeven and
Ustad Zakir Hussian perform at the 10th death
anniversary of Ustad Allarakha in Mumbai.

9. Tribute:
The
line
"Zakir Hussain Tabela Ivaltana"
in
the Tamil song "Telephone Manipol"
in Indian (1996) film
directed by
 S.Shankar
is
a tribute to him. This song was written by
poet Vairamuthu.