

Yusuf studied music as a composition student at the prestigious Royal Academy, as well as at Salford University in north-west England.

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It quickly became an international success and launched Yusuf's professional music career. In 2003, although considering pursuing a career in law, he produced and released his first album. At the age of 16, Yusuf experienced a spiritual revival that made him become a "more committed Muslim". He learned the piano and violin as well as traditional instruments including the oud, setar, and tonbak.

He was influenced by the wide range of musical genres available to him in Ealing, immersing himself especially in Western classical music and Middle Eastern music. From an early age, Yusuf showed great interest in music. Yusuf and his parents later arrived in Ealing, West London, in the early 1980s, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. His grandparents are from Baku, Azerbaijan, from which they left to Iran when it was captured by the Bolsheviks following World War I. Sami Yusuf was born in 21 July 1980 in Tehran to Azerbaijani parents.
