“I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen - Amjad Ali's 'Durga.' He said, 'This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.' And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.”

Indian singer, musician, composer, actor and pianist

Adnan Sami Khan is an Indian singer, musician, composer, actor, and pianist. He is known for his work across Indian and Western music, and for performing in several languages, including Hindi, Urdu, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. He has been awarded the Padma Shri for his contribution to music. He can play 32 musical instruments, with the piano as his best-known instrument. He has also been credited with bringing santoor and Indian classical music to the piano, and a review in Keyboard magazine called him the keyboard discovery of the 1990s.