Legendary Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer, and film actor Ustad Zakir Hussain, renowned for his exceptional skill and ‘dancing fingers’, passed away at 73. According to his family, Hussain had been battling complications related to a chronic lung disease, and on Monday at a hospital in San Francisco, he took his last breath. The tabla maestro had been hospitalised for the past two weeks, and his condition worsened, leading to his transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU). Ustad Zakir Hussain’s death marks the loss of one of the most iconic figures in Indian classical music, whose contributions to Indian and global music were immeasurable.
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