Renowned tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, aged 73, is no more. The news was broken on social media by his family. After two weeks of hospitalization, his condition deteriorated, requiring ICU care. Hussain leaves behind an unmatched legacy as a global ambassador of Indian classical music.

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.

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) 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 hospital early Monday. He was 73.