Adnan Sami

Adnan Sami Khan (Urdu: عدنان سمیع خان; born 15 August 1963), popularly known simply as Adnan Sami, is a British born singer, musician pianist actor and composer of Pakistani origin from Canada. His style merges Asian and Western styles and instrumentation and ranges from classical to jazz to modern pop-rockSami was born, reared and educated in London, United Kingdom. His father, Arshad Sami Khan was a decorated fighter pilot and war hero of the Pakistan Air Force, and a proud alumnus of PAF College Sargodha. a Pathan who was born in Pakistan[citation needed] and lived in India[citation needed], was a Pakistani diplomat and had training in composing classical and jazz music.His mother belonged to an Indian Muslim family. Sami attended Rugby School. He went on to graduate from King's College[citation needed] and became the first person to play Indian/Pakistani classical music on the electric piano. He had played the piano since the age of five. Sami began taking lessons from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting India during his school vacations. Indian singing legend Asha Bhosle spotted talent in a ten-year-old Sami at an R D Burman concert in London, and encouraged him to take up music as a career.
As a teenager, Sami, when performing on the keyboard at a programme in Stockholm, was noticed by Keyboard Magazine as being the fastest man on keyboard.
Sami then went on to learn Indian classical music from Mahraj Khatak[citation needed], a Pakistani classical singing teacher and dancer.
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.citation needed