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'''Adnan Sami Khan''' ([[Urdu]]: '''عدنان سمیع خان''') (born [[August 15]], [[1973]]) is a popular [[United Kingdom|British]]-born [[Urdu]] [[singer]], [[musician]], [[pianist]], [[actor]] and [[composer]]. Born to an [[India]]n mother and a [[Pakistan]]i father, his style merges Indian and Western styles and instrumentation and ranges from [[classical music|classical]] to [[jazz]] to modern [[Pop music|pop]]-[[rock music|rock]]. He was awarded [[MTV]]'s [[2001]] "Breakthrough Artist of the Year". |
'''Adnan Sami Khan''' ([[Urdu]]: '''عدنان سمیع خان''') (born [[August 15]], [[1973]]) is a popular [[United Kingdom|British]]-born [[Urdu]] [[singer]], [[musician]], [[pianist]], [[actor]] and [[composer]]. Born to an [[India]]n mother and a [[Pakistan]]i father name Sanwal Ghazi, his style merges Indian and Western styles and instrumentation and ranges from [[classical music|classical]] to [[jazz]] to modern [[Pop music|pop]]-[[rock music|rock]]. He was awarded [[MTV]]'s [[2001]] "Breakthrough Artist of the Year". |
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Adnan Sami Khan (Urdu: عدنان سمیع خان) (born August 15, 1973) is a popular British-born Urdu singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer. Born to an Indian mother and a Pakistani father name Sanwal Ghazi, his style merges Indian and Western styles and instrumentation and ranges from classical to jazz to modern pop-rock. He was awarded MTV's 2001 "Breakthrough Artist of the Year".
Biography
Sami was born, reared and educated in Britain. His father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pakistani diplomat and had training in composing classical and jazz music.[citation needed] Sami attended Rugby School and studied at the University of London. He had played piano since his childhood and so studied music in school and in college. Indian singer 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. Sami then went on to learn Indian classical music from Mahraj Khatak, a Pakistani classical singing teacher and dancer. Sami further learned from Indian Santoor maestro, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, and became one of the first people to play Indian classical music on the piano and electric piano.
Sami's parents and younger brother now reside in Houston, Texas. He was married to Safa Galadhari and has a son from another previous marriage with Zeba Bakhtiar.
Sami moved from Pakistan to India on a full-time basis, switching his nationality to the latter country's.
Awards and accolades
Sami has won many international awards, including the "Nigar Award", the "Bolan Academy Award", and the "Graduate Award". He was given a "Special Award of UNICEF" and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa. He was invited to be a member of the jury of the prestigious music festival "Voice of Asia" competition, held annually at Almaty, Kazhakstan - the jury comprises top music composers of the world. Sami has recently been featured in a documentary, commissioned by the Foreign and Common Wealth Office of Great Britain, about ten people from the sub-continent who have influenced the Asian culture in the UK over the last fifty years.
Reviewing a piano solo performance Khan gave on Channel 4 in the UK, Keyboard Magazine declared him the "Keyboard Discovery of The 90s". Swedish radio and television referred to him as the "fastest keyboard player in the world."[citation needed] Sami has performed for prestigious music festivals to sold-out stadia of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries.[citation needed]
As a classical concert pianist, Sami has had the honour of giving "solo" Royal Command performances before the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan. He has also performed before Heads of State and Government such as President Mitterrand of France, the President of United Arab Emirates, the President and Prime Minister of India, the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, the President and Prime Minister of Khazakhstan, the Prime Minister of Kyrgystan, the Prime Minister and Christina of Sweden.[citation needed]
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