Profile

As a recording artist, stage and Television performer, Adnan, has worked in various parts of the world. His vocal albums have consistently been big sellers, each album, crossing the multi-million mark in sales. His energy on stage as well as his music videos are a delight for audiences and viewers of all ages.

Adnan made his debut on the Indian music scene in June 2000 when he released his album titled "Kabhi To Nazar Milao". The album caught fire the moment it hit the stores and his compositions have set a new record of being the bestseller on the various musical charts for more than three years along with being the highest selling non-film album of all time in India! Never has any album in India dominated the charts for so long nor has any album been No.1 for as long as "Kabhi To Nazar Milao" (72 weeks).

His subsequent musical album titled "Always yours-Adnan" as well as his songs from the movies "Ajnabee", "Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar", "Awaara Paagal Deewana", "Shakti", "Chor Machaay Shor", "Saathiya", "Yuva" & the recent super-hit song "Ishq Hota Naheen" from the Mukta Arts film- "Jogger's Park" to name a few, have added to Adnan's popularity. Adnan has also signed an extremely prestigious deal to endorse Pepsi Cola in India.

Adnan Sami's record titled "Tera Chehra" has further broken sale records by becoming the biggest selling album of 2002 (including film soundtracks) in India and abroad (U.S.A and Canada). The album has been in the No. 1 position from the time of its release in September 2002 and continued to do so for over a year, thus beating his debut album's No.1 record set earlier by himself!

In his career spanning nearly 20 years, Adnan has won many International Awards including "Nigar Award", "Bolan Academy Award", "Graduate Award" etc. He was given a "Special Award of U.N.I.C.E.F." and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa. He was also invited as a member of the jury of the prestigious music festival "Voice of Asia" competition held annually at Almaty, Kazhakstan. This jury comprised of top music composers of the world.

Although Adnan comes from a completely non-musical family, his father has been his paramount supporter, helping and encouraging him to develop his musical style and technique on the Piano. Adnan is the first person to play Indian Classical music on the electric Piano. Popularly referred to as the "fastest Keyboard player in the world", this observation was first made by the Swedish Radio and Television Broadcasting. Adnan Sami has been featured in a documentary recently commissioned by the Foreign and Common Wealth Office of Great Britain amongst exclusive ten famous names from the sub-continent of India, who have influenced the Asian culture in the UK over the last fifty years.

As a classical concert pianist, Adnan Sami has had the honor of giving "solo" Royal Command Performances before such Royalty as the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan. He has also performed before Heads of State and Governments such as President Mitterand of France, President of United Arab Emirates, President and Prime Minister of India to name a few.

Apart from this, Adnan has performed for prestigious Music Festivals to sold-out Stadiums of his solo concert tours all over the world in over forty countries. On 15th December, 2002, B.B.C. World Service celebrated 70 years of broadcasting by organizing a world wide live concert with Artistes representing different parts of the world who performed before a global audience via satellite; From India, Adnan Sami was chosen by B.B.C; TRP feedback reflected that the maximum response globally was given to his performance.

Recently, in the summer of 2003, Adnan achieved the distinction of becoming the only Artiste from the entire Asian region to have sold out Wembley Stadium in London for two nights in a row- a feat that has won him a place in the prestigious Limca Book of World Records.