Adnan Sami Khan (Urdu: ????? ???? ???) (born August 15, 1973) is a popular British-born South Asian Pakistani singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer. Born to an Indian muslim mother and a Pakistani father, his style merges Indian and Western styles and instrumentation and ranges from classical to jazz to modern pop-rock. He was awarded MTV's 2001 "Breakthrough Artist of the Year". Biography Sami was born, reared and educated in Britain. His father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pakistani diplomat and had training in composing classical and jazz music.Sami attended Rugby School and studied at London School of Economics. He had played piano since his childhood and so studied music in school and in college. 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. Sami then went on to learn Indian classical music from Mahraj Khatak,

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