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Adnan Sami is a singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer based in Mumbai. He has a command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock, pop, Indian classical music, fusion and Indian film music. He is the first person in musical history to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he pioneered and created through the Indian instrument called the santoor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adnan Sami: I respect my earlier two wives for the times we shared and for being a part of my life )〕 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 can play over 35 musical instruments.〔 Born to Naureen and Arshad Sami Khan in London, UK,〔 he is of Pakistani, Indian, Afghan ancestry. Adnan Sami is credited for having sold more than a hundred million albums worldwide. He has some of the best-selling independent albums of all time in South Asia. He has sung and composed innumerable hit songs in Bollywood movies throughout his career. ''The Times of India'' has called him the "Sultan of Music". ==Early life and education== Khan was born on 15 August 1973 in London, United Kingdom〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451152/〕〔http://www.last.fm/music/Adnan+Sami〕 to Pakistani Pashtun father Arshad Sami Khan,〔 and an Indian Kashmiri mother Naureen Khan who hailed from Jammu.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Roya has rejuvenated me" - Adnan Sami )〕 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 Herat, Afghanistan and was the governor of four provinces in Afghanistan, namely Herat, Kabul, Jalalabad and Balkh, under the reign of King Amanullah Khan. Adnan's great-grandfather General Ahmed Jan was the military adviser to King Abdur Rahman Khan. General Ahmed Jan was the conqueror of Kafiristan and named it Nuristan. However, at the time of the Bacha Saqqa 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adnan Sami: Fastest fingers first )〕 Sami attended Rugby School in Rugby, West Midlands, UK. He went on to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of London. Adnan followed his bachelor's degree with a law degree (LLB) from King's 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 and 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 command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock and pop music. As a teenager, Adnan, when performing on the piano on a TV program in Stockholm, was described by the US-based ''Keyboard'' magazine as the fastest man on keyboard in the world and the keyboard discovery of the nineties.〔 Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, the Santoor maestro in India. 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 also won a peace medal from the United Nations for his effort. He went on to become the first person to play Indian classical music on the electric piano. In his career of 25 years, Adnan Sami has won many international awards including the Nigar Award, Bolan Academy Award and Graduate Award. Adnan is the youngest recipient of the Naushad Music Award for Excellence in Music. Previous recipients of this award include Lata Mangeshkar and Music Maestro Khayam. Adnan was invited as a member of the jury of the prestigious music festival Voice of Asia competition held annually at Almaty, Kazhakstan. The members of this jury were top music composers of the world. Adnan was featured in a documentary commissioned by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, alongside other famous names from the subcontinent of India who have influenced Asian culture in the UK over the last fifty years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adnan Sami」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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