{"id":403418,"date":"2024-02-06T02:16:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=403418"},"modified":"2024-02-06T02:16:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:46:50","slug":"five-indians-wins-awards-at-grammy-2024-zakir-hussain-gets-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/five-indians-wins-awards-at-grammy-2024-zakir-hussain-gets-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Indians wins awards at Grammy 2024; Zakir Hussain gets three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India shone at the 2024 Grammy Awards with five Indian musicians, including tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, picking up the coveted prize at a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


While Hussain was India\u2019s big winner with three Grammys, Rakesh Chaurasia picked up two. Singer Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan and percussionist Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Hussain\u2019s collaborators in the fusion group Shakti, won one Grammy each at the event held at the Crypto.com Arena Sunday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Shakti won the 2024 Grammy Award for best global music album for \u201cThis Moment\u201d. The album features the four Indians as well as its founding member, the legendary British guitarist John McLaughlin. \u201cThis Moment\u201d, which released to critical acclaim in June 2023, is the group\u2019s first studio album in more than 45 years. Besides his award for Shakti, Hussain won two other awards — the best global music performance for \u201cPashto\u201d and best contemporary instrumental album for \u201cAs We Speak\u201d. The best global music performance category had eight nominees, including \u201cAbundance In Millets\u201d, a song by Falu and featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, \u201cShadow Forces\u201d by Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily, and \u201cAlone\u201d by Burna Boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Rakesh Chaurasia, nephew of legendary flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia, won two Grammys as part of the ensemble of American banjo player Bela Fleck and American bassist Edgar Meyer for \u201cPashto\u201d and \u201cAs We Speak\u201d. \u201cWithout love and music we are nothing,\u201d Hussain said in his award acceptance speech for \u201cPashto\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cThanks to the Academy, thanks to all these great musicians for giving us this beautiful (live) music today. One of our members is missing, Mr Bela Fleck. \u201cSo from him, Mr Rakesh Chaurasia, and Mr Edgar Meyer, our deepest thanks\u2026 Families are here and without them, we are nothing. Without love, music, harmony, we are nothing,\u201d the veteran percussionist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This is not the first win for Hussain at the awards organised by the US-based Recording Academy. He earlier won Grammys, across categories and in solo capacity as well as in collaborations, in 1991, 1996 and 2008. The \u201cAs We Speak\u201d team — Hussain, Meyer, Fleck and Chaurasia — were also nominated for best instrumental composition for motion. Three-time Grammy winner Ricky Kej wrote, \u201cWowwww.. this is truly India\u2019s year at the Grammys!!! Wowww.. Rakesh Chaurasia, Shankar Mahadevan, Ganesh Rajagopalan, Selvaganesh Vinayakram and Ustad Zakhir Hussain.. India is truly shining!! Thrilled!!!! 5 Indians win in a single year \ud83d\ude42 #GRAMMYs #GRAMMYs2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar was the first musician from India to win a Grammy Award (best chamber music performance) in 1968. Since then, several musicians from the country, including Zubin Mehta, Anoushka Shankar, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, L Shankar, and T H Vinayakram, have received Grammys in various categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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India shone at the 2024 Grammy Awards with five Indian musicians, including tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, picking up the coveted prize at a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles. While Hussain was India\u2019s big winner with three Grammys, Rakesh Chaurasia picked up two. Singer Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan and percussionist Selvaganesh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":403427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}