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. Sami was invited as a member of the jury of the music festival Voice of Asia competition held annually at Almaty, Kazakhstan.Īdnan Sami at the release party for his album Kisi Din 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. Agha Mehfooz Jan was assassinated by Habibullah Kalakani and therefore Sami's father's family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India. His paternal great-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, while his paternal grandfather Abdul Sami Khan served as the Deputy Inspector General of Police. His paternal great-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 Pakistani Pashtun while his mother Naureen Khan was an Indian from Jammu.
He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom.
Sami was born in London, England on 15 August 1971.
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