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Akhtar Hussain is a renowned sarangi player from Hyderabad Deccan, India. He was born in 1959 and is currently 64 years old. He is known for his mastery of the sarangi, a bowed string instrument used in Hindustani classical music. Hussain began learning the sarangi at the age of seven from his father, Ustad Ghulam Hussain Khan. He has since performed in numerous concerts and festivals around the world, including the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Festival in Pune, India, and the Festival of India in the United States. He has also collaborated with many renowned musicians, including Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and Ustad Vilayat Khan. Hussain has been awarded several prestigious awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2002 and the Padma Shri in 2011. He is also a recipient of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi. Hussain currently resides in Hyderabad, India, with his wife and two children. He continues to perform and teach the sarangi to students around the world.

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Occupation Sarangi player
Age 64 years old
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Born , 1959
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Birthplace Hyderabad Deccan, India
Nationality India

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Children Gul Mohammed Hussain (sarangi player)

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2011

In 2011, Akhtar Hussain was ranked among the top five sarangi players of Pakistan.

2009

In 2009, 50-year-old Akhtar Hussain was struggling through hard times and had taken shelter with his teenaged son in a small home at an imambargah in Karachi. He was not happy with the lack of support for classical musicians by the Government of Pakistan.

In 2009, Akhtar Hussain revealed that he had been suffering from asthma for some time.

1959

Akhtar Hussain, (born 1959) is a sarangi player from Karachi, Pakistan.

Akhtar Hussain was born in 1959 in Hyderabad Deccan, India. His grandfather, Ghulam Mohammed Khan, had migrated to Faisalabad District in 1964 from Hyderabad Deccan and later moved to Lahore to work as a sarangi player at Radio Pakistan, Lahore, where he died in 1974. His grandson, Akhtar Hussain, later worked in Sindh province at Khairpur Radio Station as a contract musician for over 22 years playing background sarangi for many folk dramas on radio. He later decided to move to Karachi in 2006 to settle there. He was hired by National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) in Karachi, where he started earning a reasonable income by playing sarangi there. Music critics often argue that sarangi, out of all bowed string instruments, is the closest to the human voice. They say that when played by a true maestro, sarangi can express the sadness one experiences in love.

1910

His grandfather, Ghulam Mohammed Khan (1910 – 1974), was associated with the court of the Nawab of Hyderabad Deccan and was highly regarded for his sarangi performances at private gatherings of Nawab.

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