His collaborators included John McLaughlin, Béla Fleck, Ravi Shankar, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Grateful Dead.

Ustad Zakir Hussain's family confirmed his death on Monday, following his hospitalisation for two weeks, during which his condition worsened and he was moved to the ICU.

Singer Anup Jalota reminisces about his times with Ustad Zakir Hussain following the tabla maestro's passing at 73 due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Jalota praises Hussain as a humble international artist,

Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain died at a hospital in San Francisco on Sunday, his family said. He was 73. “Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s most transcendent musicians, passed away from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco at the age of 73,” the family said in a statement.

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Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to a global audience, has died

Hussain was the most recognizable exponent of tabla, a pair of hand drums that is the main percussion instrument in Indian classical music.

Zakir Hussain, the exuberant maestro of tabla who once called the instrument his "mate, brother and friend" and embodied the universality of music in his 60-year career, died in a San Francisco hospit