{"id":68350,"date":"2024-12-16T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/dec\/16\/zakir-hussain-legendary-indian-tabla-musician-dies-aged-73"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:04:26","slug":"zakir-hussain-legendary-indian-tabla-musician-dies-aged-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68350","title":{"rendered":"Zakir Hussain, legendary Indian tabla musician, dies aged 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The classical musician, who performed with George Harrison and Van Morrison, died in a San Francisco hospital on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Zakir Hussain, one of India\u2019s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, has died aged 73.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian classical music icon died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease, at a hospital in San Francisco on Sunday, his family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/dec\/16\/zakir-hussain-legendary-indian-tabla-musician-dies-aged-73\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classical musician, who performed with George Harrison and Van Morrison, died in a San Francisco hospital on SundayZakir Hussain, one of India\u2019s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, has d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,71,62,425,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical-music","category-culture","category-india","category-music","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68351,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68350\/revisions\/68351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}