Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer and tabla player Zakir Hussain, who’s credited with being pivotal in introducing Indian music to the world, has died. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. India's tabla maestro Zakir Hussain plays tabla during a cultural program in the eastern Indian city of Patna on Dec. 19, 2008.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Zakir Hussain, the legendary tabla maestro who passed away on December 15 at the age of 73, continues to be cherished not only for his profound musical legacy but also for the love ...

Lord Krishna, Hinduism’s compassionate god of divine love, is often portrayed with a flute in hand. Perhaps that has something to do with the story that when he cut a large drum in half, producing two ...

Zakir Hussain, the renowned Indian tabla player, composer, and percussionist, passed away on Sunday from complications related to a chronic lung disease, his family confirmed in a statement. “His ...

NEW DELHI — 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 ...

Zakir Hussain, a musician and teacher, has died at the age of 73. He passed away on Sunday, December 15, from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis according to his family. Hussain was a virtuoso tabla player ...

The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon and one of the world’s ...

It’s the late hour when Taufiq Qureshi is back home, but when a conversation about his late brother, tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain comes up, there’s a freshness to his voice. He recalls the road ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San Francisco ...

Zakir Hussain’s departure does not mark an irreparable loss, for his greatest creations had long been gifted to the world, etched in the timeless grooves of rhythm and melody. In his later years, his ...

Zakir Hussain turned 70 on March 9th. In an unparalleled career, which began in earnest aged 7, the man widely acclaimed as the world's greatest tabla player has played with the giants of both Indian ...