MUMBAI: Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain kept the Indian flag flying with his collaborative album 'Global Drum Project' winning in the Contemporary World Music Album category.

The 51st Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. Hussain worked with Mickey Hart of the rock band 'Grateful Dead', Nigerian percussionist Sikiru Adepoju and Puerto Rican jazz percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo for the album.

The "Global Drum Project" is the second collaboration between Hart and Hussain after their compilation "Planet Drum" which was released in 1991 and went on to win the first-ever Grammy Award in the World Music category.

However Louis Banks, who earned two Grammy nominations in the "Best Contemporary Jazz Album" category for his work in the albums "Miles From India" and "Floating Point", was not as lucky.

Two more Indian musicians competing against each other in the Best Traditional World Music album category: Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya and Lakshmi Shankar, also lost out to Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a South African acappella singing group.

Kolkata-based classical musician Debashish Bhattacharya was nominated for his album "Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey",  and veteran Hindustani classical vocalist Lakshmi Shankar was shortlisted for her album "Dancing In The Light"."Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey" is a musical journey through the centuries of guitar playing in India. Using three unique guitars that Bhattacharya designed himself, each raga explores influences ranging from gypsy to Sufi with deep sensitivity and free-flowing movement between past and present, tradition and innovation.