His collaborators included Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock, Béla Fleck and Van Morrison.

Naad Trust and Rhythm School of Music are organising an evening of melody to pay homage to Zakir Hussain, one of the greatest ...

Hussain is one of the most celebrated performers in the history of Indian classical music. He also found success in Western ...

The undated black-and-white picture shows the hands of Zakir, his wife Antonia Minnecola, and daughters Anisa Qureshi and Isabella Qureshi wrapped around each other. "Forever together in love (red ...

The legendary tabla virtuoso, Ustad Zakir Hussain, was laid to rest on Thursday at a cemetery near San Francisco. As a heartfelt homage, renowned Indian percussionist A Sivamani, accompanied by ...

premiered in Europe and the UK in 2016, and in the USA in April, 2017, by the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center. A Grammy award winner, Zakir is the recipient of countless awards and ...

Ustad Zakir Hussain (Illustration: Varani Sahu) The Taj Mahal tea campaign featuring Zakir Hussain was almost an accident. We (Dharen Chadha, our planning director, and I) were pretty clear that ...

Renowned public speaker and scholar Dr Zakir Naik completed a bungee jump from a height of over 165 feet (50 metres) in Jinja, Uganda. The jump took place at an adventure site in Jinja ...

Tabla maestro, four-time Grammy award winner and Padma Vibushan awardee Ustad Zakir Hussain died in San Francisco, aged 73, on December 15, 2024, leaving a void in the world of classical music.

Ustad Zakir Hussain’s death has left the world in shock. Here, his family-like-friends from the fraternity talk about the bond they shared with the legend. After being hospitalised for over a ...

A global citizen rooted in Indian ethos, Ustad Zakir Hussain blazed a trail when he carved evocative stories out of the percussive sound of the humble drum set creating music to bind a fractious ...