By Yoshita Singh
NEW YORK: With Zakir Hussain’s death, the ‘sun’ has set on the world of Indian classical music and there is a vacuum that no one will ever be able to fill, Grammy-award winning Indian-American singer Falu, who once opened for the Tabla maestro, said.
Hussain, son of legendary tabla master Ustad Allarakha, passed away Sunday from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco at the age of 73.
“I was shocked. To me he is the sun, ‘Suraj’, of Indian classical music. When I heard the news of his passing away, I felt like the sun has set,” New York-based Falu told PTI in an interview here late on Monday while describing him as “a University of Music, this is somebody who is music.”
