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Legendary tabla player dies at 73

Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players, passed away at the age of 73.

The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (lung disease) in a hospital in San Francisco, his family said in a statement.

Hussain has won a Grammy award four times and received the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.

Son of tabla master Ustad Alla Rakha Khan, Hussain was a child prodigy who gave his first concert at the age of seven.

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