The Grammy-award-winning musician helped bring Indian classical music to a global audience and collaborated with musicians like Yo-Yo Ma and George Harrison

Here’s a look at the late composer, who died on Sunday from complications arising from a chronic lung disease.

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.