Zakir Hussain

by Shivanand Sharma on April 25, 2010 · 0 comments

in Musical

I found a series of wonderful documentaries on Zakir Hussain while researching on tabla . Here’s the first video and you should be able to get the other videos in the series in the sidebar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lXOSZLc-Q

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