“My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.”

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.