A baba came to Ustad Alla Rakha’s house the day his wife delivered their first son. As per the family’s tradition, the boy should have carried the surname Qureshi, but the baba said the boy ...

His collaborators included John McLaughlin, Béla Fleck, Ravi Shankar, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Grateful Dead. By Jon Pareles Zakir Hussain, a percussionist and composer who 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 ...

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 music icon died from ...

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

MUMBAI (Reuters) -Zakir Hussain, whose "dancing fingers" made him one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and who became a major force in contemporary world music, has died.

Hussain was loved not only by connoisseurs but also by lay listeners, in Indian and abroad; he has no parallel among Indian classical musicians. PREMIUM Mumbai, Dec 16 (ANI): (File Photo) Tabla ...