Ustad Zakir is a well known classical tabla player in India.
He is the son of tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha.
He has also won awards and recognitions for his contribution to the world of music.
Zakir is married to noted Kathak Dancer and student of Sitara Devi, Antonia Minnecola, an Italian American. Minnecola had earlier worked as Hussain's manager. His two daughters, Anisa Qureshi and Isabella Qureshi, are also studying in the field of arts.
He starred in the Merchant Ivory Film Heat and Dust, in which he also composed the score. 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.
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