Adnan’s daughter blows out first candle

Singer Adnan Sami and his wife, Roya, who welcomed their first child, Medina, on May 8 last year, celebrated her first birthday in Germany.

“I know that God truly loves me... By blessing me with an angelic daughter. He has given me the greatest reason to rejoice and find new meaning to life and the magnificence of his generosity and creation,” Adnan said in a statement.

“My Medina is too little to read this, but one day, when she can, InshAllah, she will know that, today, I was reliving every moment by the clock as to what we were doing at every minute till she entered this world, one year ago. She will also realise that a smile on her face means the universe to me. I belong to the world but she is my world. Happy birthday, my darling angelic princess Medina... ‘Baba ki Jaan’,” he added.

Thanking Roya, he said, “I can never thank you for the joy you have brought me by giving birth to Medina.”

Roya, an Afghan-origin German woman, is Adnan’s third wife. They tied the knot in January 2010.

The singer, known for songs such as Bhar Do Jholi Meri (Bajrangi Bhaijaan; 2015), was previously married to Pakistani actor Zeba Bakhtiar in 1993, with whom he had a son named Azaan Sami Khan. The couple divorced after three years. Adnan was also married to Arab Sabah Galadari, but this relationship also resulted in a divorce; the two have no children together.

PHOTOS: IANS The birthday cake Adnan Sami with daughter Medina and wife Roya