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

“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 ...

Flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia expressed disbelief at the news of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain's passing at 73. Chaurasia questioned how such a dedicated musician, who lived for his instrument ...

Oregon - Redferns/Getty Images 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 probably ...

Zakir Hussain, a prolific Indian musician known for playing the tabla, died on Sunday in San Francisco, his management company confirmed. He was 73. Tabla, a percussion instrument, is one of the ...

(All quotes ... Zakir Hussain Qureshi was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on March 9, 1951. He was 7 when he began rigorously studying music with his father, who had risen to prominence as the ...

Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain — who united musicians from diverse cultures and by doing so, shaped modern world music — died on Sunday in San Francisco. He was 73. In a statement ...

Join us as we celebrate the extraordinary life and timeless legacy of the legendary tabla virtuoso and composer Ustad Zakir ...

The tabla master Zakir Hussain died yesterday. He shaped modern world music with the Indian hand drum that has a unique sound that dating back centuries. Hussain's talents bridged cultures and ...

The tabla fell silent as Ustad Zakir Hussain (1951-2024), one of the greatest global ambassadors of Indian classical music, passed away on Monday (December 16, 2024) after a brief illness in San ...

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.