Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame beyond his Indian homeland; ...

In the middle of the afternoon, he sneaked away from Ravi Shankar’s sprawling house ... “Zakir bhai was a complete tabla player. After my great uncle Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa, it was Zakir ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain Allaraka ... Indian musician with the highest number of Grammy wins after Pandit Ravi Shankar. Earlier this year, at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, Hussain ...

Ravi Shankar, who introduced Indian music to much ... rock and Indian music that took place between guitarist McLaughlin, tabla player Hussain, violinist L. Shankar and ghatam (clay pot ...

Drawn more to the tabla than to militarism or farming, the adolescent Allah Rakha ran away to Lahore and trained as a tabla player with ... with Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920-2012), whose wizardry ...

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

Lauded as “the greatest tabla player of his generation,” the statement ... who served as sitar master Ravi Shankar’s accompanist during the peak of Shankar's career, according to the Allarak ...

Alla Rakha was an accomplished tabla player and a frequent accompanist of iconic sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019 file photo, Ustad Zakir Hussain performs during the ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain passed ... Among the many to react has been British-American sitar player and musician Anoushka Shankar who expressed her grief on social media hours after ...

Hussain was a virtuoso tabla player who worked with artists like ... He also collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, sitar master Ravi Shankar, and jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd.

Zakir Hussain, a peerless Indian tabla player who transcended genres and brought classical ... jazz master Charles Lloyd, sitarist Ravi Shankar and George Harrison of the Beatles. He was born Zakir ...