Zakir Hussain, an Indian classical musician who has been called 'the greatest tabla player of his generation,' has died at ...

Ustad Zakir Hussain, the legendary tabla player, passed away on December 15, 2024, due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease. His death has saddened music lovers worldwide, as he ...

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 ...

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 ...