Zakir Hussain: Legendary tabla player dies at 73

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 Francisco, his family said in a statement.

Hussain was 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.