Adnan Sami Khan
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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 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".
Adnan Sami was born in 1971 in London to parents from Pakistan. He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. His father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun while his mother Naureen Khan hailed from Jammu. Adnan's father served as a Pakistan Air Force pilot, before becoming a senior bureaucrat and serving as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. His paternal great-grandfather, general Ahmed Jan, was from Afghanistan and a military advisor to king Abdur Rahman Khan. His paternal grandfather Agha Mehfooz Jan was the governor of four Afghan provinces under Amanullah Khan's reign, and was assassinated during the Bacha Saqqa revolution. Following this, his father's family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India. Adnan's mother, Naureen, was a maternal niece of the socialite Akleem Akhtar. Pop star Fakhar-e-Alam is his second cousin.
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