In 2013, Adnan was honoured with the BrandLaureate International Brand Personality award by the President of The BrandLaureate, Dr KK Johan, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2008 he also won "Best International Act" at the UK Asian Music Awards. In 2008, he was presented the "Naushad Music Award" by Andhra Pradesh Department of Culture, in Hyderabad. Parliament (House of Commons) for his 'Outstanding Contribution to Sub-Continental Music'. In 2007, Sami was honoured with a Special Award from the U.K. In summer 2003, he became the only Asian artist to have sold out Wembley Stadium, London, for two consecutive nights, which won him a place in the Limca Book of Records.Īs a classical concert pianist, Sami has had the honour of giving 'Royal Command' performances before the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan. Adnan has performed for prestigious music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries. Swedish and British radio and television have often referred to him as the fastest keyboard player in the world. In 2001, he was awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year by MTV. He was given a special award by UNICEF for the song he wrote for famine-hit Ethiopia as a teenager and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa.Ī review of his piano solo performance on Channel 4, UK, in Keyboard magazine acknowledged him as the Keyboard Discovery of The 90s. Sami has won a number of international awards, including the Nigar Award, the Bolan Academy Award, and the Graduate Award. In late December 2015, the Indian Home Ministry approved his request for legal status as a citizen of India, effective as of 1 January 2016. On May 26, 2015, he submitted a request for Indian citizenship to the Home Ministry, when his Pakistani passport expired and was not renewed by Pakistan's government. On, he became a father to a daughter, Medina Sami Khan. According to the media, Adnan first met Roya in India during her visit in 2010 and proposed to her after some time.
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Sami married, for the third time on 29 January 2010, Roya Sami Khan, the daughter of a retired diplomat and army general.
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His father was an extremely supportive and influential force in his life in shaping him as a musician. In 2009, Adnan suffered the biggest blow of his life when he lost his father to pancreatic cancer. In 2008, Adnan's wife Sabah returned to Mumbai, remarried and began staying with Adnan, but the marriage only lasted one year, after which Sabah filed for divorce again. By diet and exercise, Adnan lost 167 kg (319 lb) weight in 16 months. In June 2006, Adnan weighed 230 kilograms (506 lb) he claimed his doctor had given him just six months to live. This relationship also ended in divorce, a year-and-a-half later. This was his second marriage and Sabah's second marriage as well she had a son from her previous marriage.
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In 2001, Sami married Dubai-based Arab Sabah Galadari. They divorced after three years.Īdnan Sami began living in India on March 13, 2001, on a visitor's visa which was extended from time to time. The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music".Īdnan Sami was first married to actress Zeba Bakhtiar (her third marriage) in 1993, with whom he had a son named Azaan Sami Khan. He was born in London to Arshad Sami Khan, a Pakistani diplomat of Pashtun origin, and Naureen, who was originally from Jammu and Kashmir state in North India. As a multi-platinum recording artist, he has sold the biggest selling independent albums of all time in India. A review in US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties. He is credited for being the first person to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he created through the Santoor. His most notable instrument is the piano. He performs Indian and western music, specially for Hindi movies. Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor.