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

Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain died at a hospital ... The Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge called Hussain a “cultural ambassador who bridged borders and generations with his ...

“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 ... four-time Grammy award winner [Getty Images] Born in Mumbai in 1951, Hussain ...

Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.