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

Just two weeks ago, while I was talking about your influence on my life — showing the audience in the Indian Museum in Kolkata the Zakir Hussain maquette ... thank you in person for the ...

With the passing of Ustad Zakir Hussain, the world bids farewell to ... and I would be the known person, but then I would have to give in because I was an accompanist and I had to take much ...

“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 ...

Credit: X/ShayarImran During a concert in India, Zakir Hussain’s tabla skin was damaged mid-performance. Instead of pausing, Zakir brilliantly improvised, telling a rhythmic story with his beats ...

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

Zakir Hussain was pivotal in Ramnath’s transformation ... Recalling Hussain as a fun, joyous performer and person, Ramanath said, “He told me you must be joyous on stage and that should ...

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 ...

The music world is mourning the loss of legendary tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain. Tributes poured in from prominent figures like Mohanlal, Mammootty, Kamal Haasan, Ricky Kej, and Akshay Kumar ...

Indian musician Zakir Hussain, a four-time Grammy award winner credited with turning tabla drums into an instrument loved globally, has died at the age of 73, officials said Monday. Hussain ...

Shankar: How often you meet Isabella and Anisa? Zakir: My younger daughter Isabella is in the final year of college. Anisa is a production assistant on Memoirs of Geisha and many other films.

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 ...