Adnan Sami
Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, composer, actor and pianist of Pakistani origin. He performs Indian and Western music in many languages, such as Hindi, Urdu, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. He has been awarded with Padma Shri (India's fourth highest civilian award) for his remarkable contribution to music. Able to play 32 musical instruments, his most notable instrument is the piano. He has been credited as "the first musician to have played the santoor and Indian classical music on the piano". A review in the US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties.
He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom. He was previously a Pakistani and Canadian citizen, but became a naturalised Indian citizen in 2016 after the Pakistani government refused to renounce his passport. He was born to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani Air Force veteran and diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from Jammu and Kashmir. The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music". He was awarded one of India's highest-civilian honours, the Padma Shri, on 26 January 2020.
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