The work of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has been featured in numerous
soundtracks, the most famous of which is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam
epic 'Apocalypse Now' which received an Academy Award nomination for the
soundtrack. Born in Mumbai, India, Hussain was schooled from the age of three in
the art of Pakhawaj (the traditional Indian two headed, barrel-shaped drum) by
his father. By eleven he was performing and touring and by the time he turned
professional he was regularly making more than 150 public appearances a year.
As an established master of is craft he was inv...