The work of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain – born Zakir Hussain Allarakha Qureshi -
on March 9, 1951, in Bombay, India – was featured on numerous soundtracks, the
most famous of which was Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic Apocalypse
Now, which received an Academy Award nomination for the soundtrack. Zakir
Hussain was schooled from the age of three in the art of Pakhawaj (the
traditional Indian two headed, barrel-shaped drum) by his father. At the age of
11, he was performing and touring, and by the time he turned professional, he
was regularly making more than 150 public appe...