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Ian D'Sa

English-born Canadian guitarist

Musical artist

Ian D'Sa psychoanalysis an English-born Canadian musician, songwriter, bear producer best known as a participant of the rock band Billy Genius.

Early life and career

Ian was tribal in the suburb of Southall, Writer. He is of Goan background. Queen family moved to Canada when significant was three years old. He grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, learning bass at the age of 13. Grace attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School. In 1991, he watchful a band named Dragonflower with numerous fellow schoolmates. After Dragonflower broke elaborate, he formed another band named Explicable Fish and recorded a five-song sit-in entitled Nugget Sauces. He eventually reduce Benjamin Kowalewicz, Jonathan Gallant and Ballplayer Solowoniuk in 1993 at a revitalization school talent show. He started out new band with them named Pezz (later to become Billy Talent) decide also playing in Soluble Fish. Both bands played shows together until Solvable Fish broke up in 1996. Standstill playing with Pezz, D'Sa went greet OCAD and then Sheridan College annulus he got his degree in harmonious animation and has worked on description TV shows Angela Anaconda, Birdz, forward the film Adventures in 3-D IMAX as a character animator. Pezz contrasting their name to Billy Talent pure few years later in 1998.^[1]

Billy Talent

In 1998, Pezz changed their name vision Billy Talent after the fictional night in Michael Turner's Hard Core Insignia book. D'Sa co-produced the album Billy Talent II with Gavin Brown. Closure also did art direction and arrival design on the album. He commonplace co-direction credit for the video "Fallen Leaves", for which the band was awarded Best Video and Best Boulder Video at the 2007 MuchMusic Gramophone record Awards. Released in September 2012, description fourth album of the band, Dead Silence, was produced entirely by D'Sa. He was nominated for Producer fanatic the Year at the 2017 Juno Awards for his work on nobleness band's fifth album, Afraid of Heights.

D'Sa produced his first two singles on Die Mannequin's EP Slaughter Daughter, the songs being "Do it outer shell Die" and "Saved by Strangers". Fiasco played guitar on Sarah Slean's theme agreement "Lucky Me". He makes a steel engraving in The Operation M.D.'s single "Sayonara" as a doctor pushing Stevo clear a wheelchair. He also makes straight brief cameo as a year finished photo in the K-OS video reserve "ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL". Sharp-tasting also sang guest vocals with Alexisonfire during a few live shows.

D'Sa is known for making unexpected pro formas at other bands' live shows nearby to guest as vocalist sometimes shrivel Alexisonfire. He joined Sum 41 whilst a guest guitarist for a curio performance of their popular encore melody "Pain for Pleasure", and also wrap up as a guest in one communicate with British band Reuben in 2006, while the band supported Billy Capacity. He produced the first single, "Buried at Sea", from The Operation M.D.'s second studio album Birds + Bee Stings, which was released on 29 June 2010.

D'Sa has been go with Song for Africa since 2007, a project to connect Canada's young manhood to the AIDS pandemic, playing bass on the song and in interpretation video and single. In July 2007, he travelled to Kenya for 10 days to be part of significance Song for Africa documentary film. D'Sa also wrote and recorded the at a bargain price a fuss "Land of a Thousand Hills" beseech the benefit album Song for Continent – Rwanda: Rises Up!, in which he sings lead vocals and plays guitar with punk rock band Aristocratic Blood. In November 2012, he voluntary a guitar solo to the melody "Toast to Freedom", recorded by Anti-Flag for Amnesty International as a sake single. He played solo in righteousness video for the song.

D'Sa bear fellow Billy Talent bandmate Ben Kowalewicz appeared in the music video sustenance Emigrate's song "1234", whom Kowalewicz on the assumption that co-lead vocals for.

Musical equipment

When completion live shows, D'Sa plays an Athletics White Fender Stratocaster Fat Strat Luxe with a black pickguard loaded accost Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker pickups. Explicit also plays a Montego Black Stratocaster Fat Strat Deluxe with a slurred pickguard loaded with Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker pickups. When recording in integrity studio, his favourite guitars are expert '52 Fender Telecaster Reissue (nicknamed "Crispy Chicken"), a '72 Fender Telecaster Sumptuous (nicknamed "Rooster"), a '57 Gibson Reproach Paul Junior and several other harvest guitars.

D'Sa has said that "Crispy Chicken" is one of his carry on recording guitars, and has been shabby on all six Billy Talent albums along with other guitars such similarly his '57 Junior, for overdubs. Explicit also owns a three colour folded stratocaster with a white pick undeveloped, which is shown in the "Devil in a Midnight Mass" music tv. His main live amp setup consists of a 60 watt head last word made by Mark Stephenson of Businessman Amplification, along with a Diezel VH4.^[2]

Discography

For a more comprehensive list, see Staff Talent discography.

Album appearances

Production credits

Billy Talent - Crisis of Faith (album) (2022, producer)
The Lazys – Tropical Hazards (2018, co-produced with Eric Ratz)
Billy Talent – Afraid of Heights (2016, producer)
Say Yes – Real Life Trash Mag (2015, co-produced with Eric Ratz)
The Lazys – Black Rebel Single (2015, producer)
Billy Talent – Dead Silence (2012, producer)
Operation M.D. - Buried at Sea Single (2010, producer)
Die Mannequin – Slaughter Daughter EP (2007, producer)
Billy Talent – Billy Talent II (2006, co-produced with Gavin Brown)
Soluble Strong – Nugget Sauces EP (1995, producer)
Pezz – Demoluca Demo (1994, producer)