‘A Celebration of the Life and Music of Zakir Hussain’ takes place on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain died at 73 in a San Francisco hospital due to heart complications, his family confirmed on Monday. Hussain had been hospitalised for two weeks and moved to the ICU as ...

“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 ...

In the early 1990s, Zakir Hussain created the album Soundscapes: Music Of The Deserts, drawing inspiration from natural landscapes. The tracks blended light classical music, Rajasthani folk ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) -Zakir Hussain, whose "dancing fingers" made him one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and who became a major force in contemporary world music, has died. Hussain, ...

An Akhand Path, a continuous recitation of the Guru Granth Sahib, was held at Amritsar’s Golden Temple on January 23 in memory of legendary tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. The ceremony, organized ...