Despite reports that famend Indian tabla maestro and composer Ustad Zakir Hussain passed away as of late (15 December) at the age of 73, his household clarified that the artist is in crucial situation.
He used to be present process treatment at a successfully being facility in San Francisco, USA, for heart-connected complications, reports Filmfare.
“My brother is deeply ill today. We’re inquiring for all his fans around India and around the sector to pray for him, to pray for his successfully being. However as India’s top doubtless ever exports, carry out no longer enact him off excellent yet,” Zakir Hussain’s sister Khurshid Aulia told news company PTI amid more than one reports that her brother had died.
“I excellent are making an strive to keep a query to your entire media no longer to put collectively defective details about Zakir’s passing. He is terribly mighty respiration for the time being. He is terribly very crucial, but he’s aloof with us. He has no longer yet long gone. So, I’m going to keep a query to [the media] no longer to spread this rumour by writing or pronouncing that he has passed away. I feel so execrable looking the least bit this data on Fb which is terribly defective,” she added.
“He is ill and admitted within the ICU factual now. All of us are timid in regards to the insist,” Zakir Hussain’s friend and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia additionally told the news company.
Earlier, journalist Pervaiz Alam had shared news of the maestro’s hospitalisation, revealing that Hussain used to be battling crucial ailments.
He wrote on social media, “Ustad Zakir Hussain, tabla participant, percussionist, composer, weak actor, and the son of legendary tabla participant Ustad Allah Rakha, is no longer successfully. He is being treated for crucial ailments in a San Francisco successfully being facility, USA, told his brother-in-regulation, Ayub Aulia… Aulia sahab has requested Zakir’s followers to pray for his swiftly restoration.”
Born in 1951 to the legendary Ustad Allah Rakha, Zakir Hussain is widely regarded as certainly among the top doubtless tabla gamers of all time.
His illustrious occupation earned him a fashion of accolades, including India’s Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan. In 2009, he won a Grammy within the Up-to-the-minute World Tune Album category for Worldwide Drum Challenge, a collaboration with Mickey Hart and Giovanni Hidalgo.
