| Birth name | Adnan Sami Khan |
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| Born | 15 August 1971 [1][2] London, England, UK[3] |
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| Instruments | Piano, keyboard, guitar, accordion, saxophone, violin, drums, bongos, congas, bass guitar, electric guitar, tabla, dholak, harmonium, harpsichord, santoor, sitar, sarod, percussion. |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Adnan Sami Khan is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor.[4][5][6] He performs Indian and western music, specially for Hindi movies. His most notable instrument is the piano. He is noted for playing Indian classical music on the piano created through the Santoor.[7] A review in US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world[8]and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties.[9] He can play over 35 musical instruments.[7]
He was born in London, to Arshad Sami Khan a Pakistani diplomat of Afghan Pashtun origin and his mother is originally from Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir[2][3][8][10] The Times of India has called him the “Sultan of Music”
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