Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players, has passed away at the age of 73.
The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said in a statement.
Hussain is a four-time Grammy Award winner and has received the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.
The son of tabla maestro Ustad Alla Rakha Khan, Hussain was a child prodigy who performed his first concert at the age of seven.
