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

With a classical instrument, he somehow created comedy, made you laugh, and simultaneously marvel at his enormous talent. One of my two favourite people. Both gone now (sic)." Zakir Hussain ...

“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 ...

He can play so fast that it’s a blur’ Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame beyond his Indian homeland; to Western audiences he was ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San ...