Born:   Aug 15, 1971
Mar 13, 2001:   He has been living in India ever since this day, on a visitor's visa which was extended from time to time. 
Dec 15, 2002:   BBC World Service celebrated 70 years of broadcasting by organizing a worldwide live concert with artists representing different parts of the world who performed before a global audience via satellite. He was chosen to represent India. 
Jan 29, 2010:   After having suffered divorce twice, he married for the third time on this day with an Afghan-origin German girl, Roya Sami Khan. 
May 26, 2015:   He submitted a request for Indian citizenship to India's Home Ministry, when his Pakistani passport expired and was not renewed by Pakistan's government. 
Jan 01, 2016:   Erstwhile Pakistani citizen, he was granted Indian citizenship with effect from this day following his request to the centre to legalise his status in the country on humanitarian grounds. 
May 07, 2018:   Via his tweet on this day, he claimed that his staff members were mistreated and called "Indian dogs" at the Kuwait airport immigration. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reportedly took note of the matter.
He was in Kuwait for a live performance when his staff members faced this humiliation. 

• He has a command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock, pop, Indian classical music, fusion and Indian film music.
• He is the first person in musical history to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he pioneered and created through the Indian instrument called the santoor.  
• A review in US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and called him the keyboard discovery of the nineties.
• He can play over 35 musical instruments.  
• He has sold more than a hundred million albums worldwide.  
• He has some of the best-selling independent albums of all time in South Asia.  
• He has sung and composed innumerable hit songs in Bollywood movies throughout his career.
• The Times of India has called him the "Sultan of Music".  
• Adnan has won many international awards, including the Nigar Award, the Bolan Academy Award, and the Graduate Award. He was given a special award by UNICEF for the song he wrote for famine-hit Ethiopia as a teenager and a United Nations Peace Medal for a song he wrote and performed for Africa.  
• As a classical concert pianist, Sami has had the honour of giving 'Royal Command' performances before the King of Sweden and King Hussein of Jordan.  
• In June 2006, Adnan weighed 230 kilograms (506 lb); he claimed his doctor had given him just six months to live. By diet and exercise, Adnan lost 167 kg (319 lb) weight in 16 months.