Tabla maestro Anuradha Pal on her many struggles in being a female in a male dominated field where there was no precedent Ace tabla maestro, multi percussionist, composer and educator Anuradha Pal is ...

All this week, Morning Edition is talking about drums and drummers. For the fourth installment in "Beat Week," David Greene spoke with a master of an ancient tradition who has played with some of the ...

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 ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San ...