Early Life and Education
Born in 1973 to a Pakistani Pathan father Arshad Sami Khan and an Indian Muslim mother Naureen Khan, Sami was brought up and educated in London, United Kingdom. His father Arshad was a pilot with the Pakistan Air Force and later served as a diplomat. Sami attended Rugby School. 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, Adnan Sami, when performing on the sitaar at a programme in Stockholm, was noticed by Keyboard as being the fastest man on keyboard in The World. Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Maharaj Kathak,. 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.
He graduated from King's College, University of London and became the first person to play Indian classical music on the electric piano.
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