The most famous sitar player of all time ... Then Shankar asks the players to sing a tala using Indian drum syllables. The young Ravi Shankar travelled to Paris, performing in his older brother ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players ... Indian music's global ambassador As news of Hussain's death broke, tributes have begun pouring in. Nayan Ghosh, who plays the sitar ...

It’s the media that focuses on it, like [how] at one time Pandit Ravi Shankar was the poster boy of Indian music. It did not matter that there were equally good sitar players in India at that ...

Legendary Indian musician Zakir Hussain, considered the greatest tabla player of his generation ... alongside India’s classical music legends during his teens. By 18, he was winning ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound ... who served as sitar master Ravi Shankar’s accompanist during the peak of ...

and built on his father’s efforts to popularize the tabla outside of India. Apart from performing with South Asian musical legends like vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, sitar player Pandit Ravi ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. The Indian classical music ... Nayan Ghosh, who plays the sitar and tabla, called the news "devastating ...