Zakir Hussain, the peerless tabla participant and a number of Grammy award winner, is crucial and in a US hospital over severe heart-related illnesses, his household stated on Sunday.
His supervisor, Nirmala Bachani, stated the artist he has been in a San Francisco hospital for the final two weeks.
“My brother is deeply unwell presently. We are asking for all his followers round India and around the globe to wish for him, to wish for his well being. But as India’s best ever exports, don’t end him off simply but,” Zakir Hussain’s sister Khurshid Aulia advised information company PTI amid a number of experiences that her brother had died.
“I simply wish to request all of the media to not observe fallacious details about Zakir’s passing. He may be very a lot respiratory in the intervening time. He may be very very crucial, however he is nonetheless with us. He has not but gone. So, I’ll request (the media) to not unfold this hearsay by writing or saying that he has handed away. I really feel so unhealthy watching all this data on Facebook which may be very fallacious,” she added.
“He is unwell and admitted within the ICU proper now. We all are apprehensive concerning the state of affairs,” Zakir Hussain’s pal and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia additionally advised the information company.
Union Ministers, Chief Ministers and others posted on X paying tributes to the tabla maestro amid demise experiences although there was no official assertion from Zakir Hussain’s household.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ministry, which posted concerning the artist’s demise, later deleted its submit on X.
“I’m Zakir Hussain nephew and he has not handed away. We ask for prayers for my Uncle’s well being. Can you please take away this misinformation. He is in a severe situation and we ask for all his followers around the globe to wish for his well being,” stated Ameer Aulia on X.
The Bombay-born eldest son of legendary tabla participant Allah Rakha, Zakir Hussain adopted within the footsteps of his father, changing into a marquee title in India and the world over.
“Zakir Hussain, the peerless North Indian tabla participant, favors an impish pressure of virtuosity. He’s a fearsome technician but additionally a whimsical inventor, dedicated to exuberant play. So he not often appears overbearing, even when the blur of his fingers rivals the beat of a hummingbird’s wings,” wrote New York Times concerning the artist when he carried out at Carnegie Hall in 2009.
Once narrating the story of his first reserving, the percussionist stated a letter got here to their home providing a live performance date to his father. Zakir wrote again saying that his father wouldn’t be capable to settle for the engagement however that his son was obtainable. However, he did not point out within the letter that he was solely 13. It labored, and his musical profession was beneath means.
The musician has labored with a number of famend worldwide and Indian artistes, but it surely was his 1973 musical venture with English guitarist John McLaughlin, violinist L Shankar, and percussionist TH ‘Vikku’ Vinayakram that introduced collectively Indian classical and parts of jazz in a fusion hitherto unknown.
The percussionist, one in every of India’s most celebrated classical musicians, obtained the Padma Shri in 1988, the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2023.