Zakir Hussain was the first musician from India to receive three Grammys at the Awards ceremony in 2024. He was 73-years-old, when he died due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in a San Francisco ...

Mumbai: Ustad Zakir Hussain, who passed away at the age of 73, was the youngest Indian to receive the Padma Shri award. It was at that time that he was addressed as 'Ustad' for the first time by ...

Ustad Zakir Hussain's contributions to music were recognised through numerous prestigious awards. He received the Padma Shri in 1988, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2002 and the Padma Vibhushan ...

However, this year, the 67th award ceremony left Indian music lovers disappointed by excluding legendary tabla maestro Zakir Hussain from the segment. Ustad Zakir Hussain's exclusion from Grammys ...

This year, the festival will be a homage to the enduring legacy of Padma Vibhushan the late Ustad Zakir Hussain, with performances by homegrown talents. Through his innovative and mesmerising ...

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 ...