Tabla player Zakir Hussain passed away

• Padma Vibhushan and four-time Grammy Award winner, tabla player Zakir Hussain passed away at the age of 73.

• On December 15, Zakir Hussain died due to complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

• Zakir Hussain received four Grammy Awards in his career, three of them at the 66th awards ceremony earlier this year.

• Zakir Hussain was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988, the Padma Bhushan in 2002 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2023.