26 December 2024

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, in a San Francisco hospital, his family said in a statement.

Hussain was a four-time Grammy Award winner and recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.

The son of tabla maestro Ustad Ala Rakha Khan, Hussain was a child prodigy who performed his first concert at the age of seven.

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