Zakir Hussain, an Indian classical musician who has been called 'the greatest tabla player of his generation,' has died at ...
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 was the eldest son of legendary tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha. Zakir Hussain, born on March 9, 1951, in Mumbai, was a virtuoso tabla player who made a mark on the global level.
Sarangi player Sabir Khan has had a 21-year association with tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, accompanying him at his solo recitals or in larger group settings. He says, “It began when my ...
Tracks featuring Zakir Hussain accompanying bansuri maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia and santoor star Shivkumar Sharma.
“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 ...
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 ...
Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic ...