Pakistani tabla player arshad ali biography

Pakistani percussionist (born 1957)

Dildar Hussain (born 1957) is a Pakistani percussionist and tabla player.^[1] He is known for being the left handed tabla player for late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a renowned Qawwali singer.

Dildar Hussain played tabla for him in his qawwali-singing group until Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997. Dildar Hussain belongs to the Punjab gharana of tabla-playing music artists.^[2] He is a shagird of Ustad Allah Rakha.

Pakistani tabla player arshad ali biography

Dildar Hussain plays the tabla left-handed

Career

He was born in Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan in 1957. Dildar Hussain's father was also a tabla-player. Dildar Hussain initially learned tabla-playing from Ustad Alla Rakha, a renowned veteran tabla-player of Punjab gharana in Pakistan.

His first performance was in India in 1969. Then he joined Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's original group back in 1971, at the age of 14, and stayed with that group for 30 years. While Dildar Hussain played tabla with Nusrat Fateh