Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, actor and pianist.

[4][5][6] He performs Indian and Western music in many languages, such as Hindi, Urdu, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.

[19][20] His paternal great-great-grandfather, General Ahmed Jan, was from Afghanistan and a military advisor to king Abdur Rahman Khan.

[20] His paternal great-grandfather Agha Mehfooz Jan was the governor of four Afghan provinces under King Amanullah Khan's reign and was also the King's first cousin, while his paternal grandfather Abdul Sami Khan served as the Deputy Inspector General of Police.

Agha Mehfooz Jan was assassinated by Habibullah Kalakani and therefore Sami's father's family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India.

Sami began taking lessons in Indian classical music from the santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting India during his school vacations.

Indian singer Asha Bhosle saw him at age ten at an R. D. Burman concert in London, and encouraged him to take up music as a career.

[9] 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.

Sami was invited as a member of the jury of the music festival Voice of Asia competition held annually at Almaty, Kazakhstan.

[26] In 2000, Asha Bhosle collaborated with Sami on a collection of love songs named Kabhi to Nazar Milao[27] in India.

[35] Sami's Tera Chehra broke sales records by becoming India's best-selling album of 2002 (including film soundtracks), continuing its No.

1 position in all the music charts of India from the time of its release in September 2002 for over a year, beating his debut album's No.

His most successful albums have been Kabhi To Nazar Milao (with Asha Bhosle) and Tera Chehra,[36] and his music videos usually have had Bollywood stars in them, including Namrata Shirodkar ("Bheegi Bheegi Raat"), Mahima Chaudhry, Raveena Tandon, Rani Mukerji ("Tera Chehra"), Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Amisha Patel ("O Meri Jaan"), Bhumika Chawla ("Maahiya"), Dia Mirza ("Pal Do Pal") and Amitabh Bachchan (Kabhi Nahi).

[42] The song "Tu Sirf Mera Mehboob" from the Hindi film Ajnabee, sung by Adnan, became popular[43] and was declared a "superhit" by Screen Magazine, who called him the pop personality of the year in 2001.

Adnan has performed for music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries.

The video of this song captures the nationalistic spirit of competition, depicting Adnan performing with the Indian cricket team with guest appearances from Indian film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Fardeen Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

[51][52] He hosted the Indian version of the American music game show Don't Forget the Lyrics!

In 2011, Adnan returned as a judge on the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, which became popular worldwide.

[58][59] Adnan has performed for prestigious music festivals to sold-out stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries.

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.

[65] In April 2017, Sami became the first South Asian to have performed at London's Wembley Stadium 8 times; tickets were sold out on all 8 occasions.

[77] In late December 2015, the Indian Home Ministry approved his request for legal status as a citizen of India,[89] effective as of 1 January 2016.