Superstar Amitabh Bachchan recently pointed out India's unity as he mourned the loss of four icons -- former PM Manmohan ...

The passing of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has deeply affected the music world, leaving an irreplaceable void. The legendary ...

Hussain, who died Dec. 15 at age 73 in San Francisco of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, was regarded as the ...

Family of the former George Harrison and Van Morrison collaborator say he leaves behind "an extraordinary legacy cherished by countless music lovers around the globe".

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 ...

Going beyond the adulation that Zakir Hussain will continue to receive from his seniors, contemporaries, juniors and fans, ...

Indian percussion marvel Zakir Hussain will long be hailed for his ... for its pioneering East-meets-West approach, but also for drawing from both the Carnatic music of Southern India, which ...

It should come as no surprise, then, that the first sounds Zakir ... 2000s, Hussain was asked about the increasing commercialization of music, and whether it might compromise the art form itself.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical ...

The demise of Renowned tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, Padma Vibhushan awardee, has left the music world and his countless admirers in profound grief, with tributes and condolences pouring in ...

Zakir Hussain, best known as the late tabla maestro was one known as the sexiest man. Back in 1994 he beat actor Amitabh Bachchan to bag the title for Indian magazine Gentleman. The women readers of ...

“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 ...