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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.
Tributes have started pouring in from across the world.
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