Adnan Sami
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| Birth name | Adnan Sami Khan |
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15 August 1971 London, England, UK |
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| Instruments | Piano, keyboard, guitar, accordion, saxophone, violin, drums, bongos, congas, bass guitar, electric guitar, tabla, dholak, harmonium, harpsichord, santoor, sitar, sarod, percussion. |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Adnan Sami Khan is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor. He performs Indian and western music, specially for Hindi movies. His most notable instrument is the piano. He is the first person in musical history to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he pioneered and created through the Indian instrument called the Santoor. A review in US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties. He can play over 35 musical instruments.
Born to Naureen and Arshad Sami Khan in London, he is of Pakistani, Indian and Afghan origin. He has some of the best-selling independent albums of all time in South Asia. The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music".
Khan was born in 1971 in London to a Pashtun father named Arshad Sami Khan, and a Kashmiri mother named Naureen Khan who hailed from Jammu. He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. Adnan's father started his career in the Pakistan Air Force but later went on to serve as a distinguished diplomat having served as diplomatic Ambassador to 14 countries around the world and a highly decorated grade 22 bureaucrat having served as Federal Secretary. Adnan's grandfather General Mehfooz Jan hailed from Herat, Afghanistan and was the governor of four provinces in Afghanistan, namely Herat, Kabul, Jalalabad and Balkh, under the reign of King Amanullah Khan. Adnan's great-grandfather General Ahmed Jan was the military adviser to King Abdur Rahman Khan. However, at the time of the Habibullah Kalakani revolution in Afghanistan, Adnan's grandfather General Mehfooz Jan was assassinated. The family therefore migrated to Peshawar, which was a part of British India at that time.
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