Legendary tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed away at a hospital in San Francisco due to complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the family said in a statement on Monday (December ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began ...

IMAGE: Tabla Maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, left, and Flautist Rakesh Chaurasia at one of their performances. All Photographs: Kind courtesy Rakesh Chaurasia Earlier this year, we spoke to flautist ...

Ustad Zakir Hussain (Illustration: Varani Sahu) The Taj Mahal tea campaign featuring Zakir Hussain was almost an accident. We (Dharen Chadha, our planning director, and I) were pretty clear that ...

Sometime in the 1970s, Zakir Hussain, a young and rising tabla virtuoso, was travelling solo to Benaras for a prestigious concert with the legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Worried ...

Sandip Roy remembers Ustad Zakir Hussain. IMAGE: Ustad Zakir Hussain at one of his performances. Photograph: Kind courtesy Zakir Hussain/Instagram Social media is reverberating with Zakir Hussain ...

Zakir Hussain is not just a tabla maestro; he is a global cultural icon, a brand that transcends the boundaries of music. With his impeccable artistry, magnetic stage presence, and deep-rooted ...

Vadodara University students perform tabla to honour late Ustad Zakir Hussain The students of Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara paid tribute to legendary tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain ...

Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain has passed away at the age of 73 in San Francisco from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a statement from his family confirmed on Monday. He had been hospitalised for the ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San ...