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ADNAN SAMI

Khan was born in 1969 in London, United Kingdom to Pakistani Pashtun father Arshad Sami Khan (originally from Herat, Afghanistan) and an Indian Kashmiri mother Naureen Khan who hailed from Jammu. He was raised in an aristocrat family and educated in the United Kingdom. Adnan's father started his career in the Pakistan Air Force but later went on to serve as a distinguished diplomat and bureaucrat. Adnan's grandfather General Mehfooz Jan hailed from Heart, Afghanistan, and was the governor of 4 provinces in Afghanistan, namely Heart, Kabul, Jalalabad & Balkh, under the Reign of King Amanullah Khan. Adnan's great Grand father General Ahmed Jan was the Military Adviser to King Abdur Rahman Khan. General Ahmed Jan was the conqueror of Kafiristan & named it Nuristan. However, at the time of the famous Bacha Sagga revolution in Afghanistan, Adnan's grandfather General Mehfooz Jan was assassinated. The family therefore migrated to Peshawar which was a part of British India at that time. Therefore, Adnan is of Pashtun origin.

Sami attended Rugby School in Rugby, West Midlands, UK. He went on to graduate in Journalism & Political Science from the University of London. Adnan followed his bachelor's degree with a Law degree (L.L.B) from the prestigious Kings College, London. He went on to qualify as a Barrister from the prestigious Lincoln's Inn, England. However, since music was his passion, he chose to pursue it as his profession. He had played the piano since the age of five & composed his first piece of music when he was nine years old. He went on to learn more than 35 musical instruments. Sami began taking lessons in Indian Classical Music from the Santoor Maestro 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. He is an accomplished Concert Pianist, Music Composer and Singer with a special command on all Indian and Western Classical/semi-classical notes, Jazz, Rock & Pop music. As a teenager, Adnan, when performing on the piano at a TV program in Stockholm, was noticed by the US based Keyboard Magazine as being the 'Fastest man on Keyboard in the world & the Keyboard Discovery of the Nineties'. Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the Santoor maestro in India

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