Early Life
Hussain was born in Bombay, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St. Michael's High School in Mahim, and graduated from St Xaviers, Mumbai.
His younger brothers are noted percussionists, Taufiq Qureshi and Fazal Qureshi and Maral Qureshi. When he took birth his father was extremely ill. It is fabled that a sage visited their dwelling and predicted that his father would soon recover and that Zakir would assume the illness of his father for a period of four years. That is what transpired and four years after his birth, Zakir recovered from the migrated illness.
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