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 ...

Tabla player Salar Nader performs with the Third Coast Percussion ensemble at the Nimoy Theatre in Westwood on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. The group played several pieces, including Zakir Hussain's ...

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 ...

New York: Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain was laid to rest in San Francisco on Thursday. Hussain, one of the world’s most accomplished percussionists, died at a San Francisco hospital on Monday due to ...

Mumbai: The world of music has plunged into mourning with the passing of Ustad Zakir Hussain (73), the legendary tabla maestro and the eldest son of the iconic Ustad Allah Rakha on Sunday. He breathed ...

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, the Grammy-winning Indian musician regarded as one of the world’s greatest tabla players, has died. His family revealed in a statement to press that Hussain died of pulmonary fibrosis, ...

Zakir Hussain with mandolin player U. Shrinivas (left) and sitar player Shahid Parvez (right) at the Saptak School of Music in Ahmedabad in January 2007. | Sam Panthaky/AFP There will no longer be ...

The twin hand drum was developed in its current form about 300 years ago on the Indian subcontinent but the roots of the tabla may date to pre-Muslim, Arabia. The name comes from "tabl," the Arabic ...

Tabla player Salar Nader performs with the Third Coast Percussion ensemble at the Nimoy Theatre in Westwood on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. The group played several pieces, including Zakir Hussain's ...