Indian music legend Zakir Hussain passes on, matured 73.

Tabla players brought Indian classical music to the world, collaborating with greats like the previous Beatle, George Harrison.

Amazing Indian performer Zakir Hussain considered the most prominent tabla player of his era, has passed on.Hussain, known for his “dancing fingers,” kicked the bucket on Sunday from complications emerging from an incessant lung malady at a healing center in San Francisco, his family said in an explanation.

Born in Mumbai, the 73-year-old was the world's best-known type of the tabla drum, the most percussion instrument in Indian classical music.

“His productive work as an instructor, coach, and teacher has cleared out a permanent stamp on endless musicians,” said his family, including that he had trusted to rouse the other eras of tabla players.

Hussain was instructed to play the instrument at the age of 12 by his father, the eminent tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha.

He once said in a meet shared broadly on social media that his father invited him into the world after he was born by talking tabla rhythms into his ears.

“The convention was that the father is assumed to present a supplication within the baby's ear … So he takes me in his arms, puts his lips to my ear, and presents the tabla rhythms into my ears,” Hussain said.

A child wonder, the artist was visiting by age 12 and performing nearby India's classical music legends amid his teenagers.

By 18, he was winning universal approval for his astonishing solo exhibitions, going on to collaborate with melodic mammoths like previous Beatle George Harrison, jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Hussain shaped the Indian jazz combination band “Shakti” in 1973 with jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, playing acoustic combination music that combined Indian music with components of jazz, presenting a unique sound to Western groups of onlookers.

In 2024, Hussain got to be the primary musician from India to win three Grammy grants within the same year. He had also won a Grammy in 2009.

In 2023, Hussain got the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian grant. He is survived by his spouse and two girls.