In 1994, he composed music for a film for the first time. The song from his album Teri Yaad was the title track of his first album, which became a huge hit in Pakistan. He released his first vocal solo album Raag Time in 1991. His first formal album, The One & Only (1989), was a classical album on the piano accompanied by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. 1s: 'Talk To Me', 'Hot Summer Day' and 'You're My Best Kept Secret'. 1 in the music charts in the Middle East. It was in English, and recorded for UNICEF.
His first single, 'Run for his life', was released in 1986. Career Īdnan Sami at the release party of his album Kisi Din Sami was invited as a member of the jury of the music festival Voice of Asia competition held annually at Almaty, Kazakhstan. Previous recipients of this award include Lata Mangeshkar and Music Maestro Khayam. Adnan is the youngest recipient of the Naushad Music Award for Excellence in Music. In his career of 32 years, Sami has won many international awards including the Nigar Award, Bolan Academy Award and Graduate Award. At the age of sixteen, Sami was approached to write a song for famine-hit Ethiopia, for which he won a special award from UNICEF. Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the Santoor maestro in India.
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As a teenager, Adnan, when performing on the piano on a TV program in Stockholm, was described by the US-based Keyboard magazine as the fastest man on keyboard in the world and the keyboard discovery of the nineties. He is an accomplished concert pianist, music composer and singer with a command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock and pop music. Burman concert in London, and encouraged him to take up music as a career. Indian singer Asha Bhosle saw him at age ten at an R. Sami began taking lessons in Indian classical music from the santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting India during his school vacations. He had played the piano since the age of five and composed his first piece of music when he was nine years old. He went on to qualify as a barrister from Lincoln's Inn, England. Adnan followed his bachelor's degree with a law degree (LLB) from King's College London. Sami attended Rugby School in Rugby, West Midlands, UK. He was assassinated by Habibullah Kalakani and therefore his father's family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India. His paternal grandfather Agha Mehfooz Jan was the governor of four Afghan provinces under King Amanullah Khan's reign and was also the King's first cousin. His paternal great-grandfather, General Ahmed Jan, was from Afghanistan and a military advisor to king Abdur Rahman Khan. 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 father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun while his mother Naureen Khan was from Jammu. He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. The Times of India has called him the 'Sultan of Music'. He was born in London to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from Jammu and Kashmir state in North India.
As a multi-platinum recording artist, he has sold the biggest selling independent albums of all time in India. 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 is credited for being the first person to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he created through the Santoor. His most notable instrument is the piano. He performs Indian and western music, specially for Hindi movies. Piano, keyboard, guitar, accordion, saxophone, violin, drums, bongos, congas, bass guitar, electric guitar, tabla, dholak, harmonium, harpsichord, santoor, sitar, sarod, percussion.Īdnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor. Musician, singer, music composer, pianist, television presenter & Actor