The 2024 Grammy Awards has been an awesome occasion when it comes to India’s perspective as 5 musicians, together with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, picked up the coveted prize at a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles, PTI reported 

While Hussain was India’s huge winner with three Grammys, Rakesh Chaurasia adopted him with two. Singer Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan and percussionist Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Hussain’s collaborators within the fusion group Shakti, received one Grammy every on the occasion held on the Crypto.com Arena Sunday evening.

Shakti luggage the very best international music album 

Shakti received the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album for “This Moment”. The album options the 4 Indians in addition to its founding member, the legendary British guitarist John McLaughlin. “This Moment”, which was launched to vital acclaim in June 2023, is the group’s first studio album in additional than 45 years.

Besides his award for Shakti, Hussain received two different awards — the Best Global Music Performance for “Pashto” and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for “As We Speak”.

The greatest international music efficiency class had eight nominees, together with “Abundance In Millets”, a track by Falu and that includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “Shadow Forces” by Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily, and “Alone” by Burna Boy.

Rakesh Chaurasia, nephew of legendary flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia, received two Grammys as a part of the ensemble of American banjo participant Bela Fleck and American bassist Edgar Meyer for “Pashto” and “As We Speak”.

In a put up on X, the prime minister praised the 5 artists for making India proud on the Grammys, saying their “exceptional talent and dedication to music” had received hearts worldwide.

“… These achievements are a testament to the hardwork you keep putting in. It will also inspire the new generation of artists to dream big and excel in music,” Modi mentioned.

“Without love and music we are nothing,” Hussain mentioned in his award acceptance speech for “Pashto”, one of many 12 songs within the fusion album “As We Speak”.

“Thanks to the Academy, thanks to all these great musicians for giving us this beautiful (live) music today… Families are here and without them, we are nothing. Without love, music, harmony, we are nothing,” the veteran percussionist mentioned.

Hussain’s highway to success 

This is just not the primary win for Hussain on the awards organised by the US-based Recording Academy. Earlier, he received Grammys, throughout classes and in solo capability in addition to in collaborations, in 1991, 1996 and 2008.

In 2008, six Indians — Rahman, H Sridhar, P A Deepak, Gulzar, Tanvi Shah, and Hussain bagged the coveted accolade throughout classes.

Rakesh Chaurasia expresses gratitude

Rakesh Chaurasia mentioned he was “happy and honoured” to carry two Grammys dwelling to India.

“More than the joy I felt for myself, the pride of winning it as an Indian musician ranks higher. To win two Grammys on my first-ever nomination makes it sweeter,” he informed information company PTI.

The musician thanked Hussain for being an inspiration, saying that it was Hussain who launched him to Fleck and Meyer.

The “As We Speak” crew — Hussain, Meyer, Fleck and Chaurasia — have been additionally nominated for greatest instrumental composition.

(With inputs from PTI)