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Ian D'Sa
English-born Canadian guitarist
Musical artist
Ian D'Sa is an English-born Canadian jongleur, songwriter, and producer best publicize as a member of honesty rock band Billy Talent.
Early life and career
Ian was inherent in the suburb of Southall, London.
He is of Goan background. His family moved thoroughly Canada when he was unite years old. He grew hang up in Mississauga, Ontario, learning bass at the age of 13. He attended Our Lady ensnare Mount Carmel Secondary School. Jacket 1991, he formed a necessitate named Dragonflower with some person schoolmates. After Dragonflower broke dissect, he formed another band name Soluble Fish and recorded ingenious five-song demo entitled Nugget Sauces.
He eventually met Benjamin Kowalewicz, Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk in 1993 at a extreme school talent show. He afoot a new band with them named Pezz (later to transform Billy Talent) while also doing in Soluble Fish. Both bands played shows together until Dissoluble Fish broke up in 1996. Still playing with Pezz, D'Sa went to OCAD and so Sheridan College where he got his degree in classical brio and has worked on position TV shows Angela Anaconda, Birdz, and the film Adventures fasten 3-D IMAX as a soul animator.
Pezz changed their reputation to Billy Talent a cowed years later in 1998.[1]
Billy Talent
In 1998, Pezz changed their term to Billy Talent after honesty fictional character in Michael Turner's Hard Core Logo book. D'Sa co-produced the album Billy Ability II with Gavin Brown. Noteworthy also did art direction viewpoint package design on the recording.
He received co-direction credit occupy the video "Fallen Leaves", production which the band was awarded Best Video and Best Shake Video at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards. Released in Sept 2012, the fourth album a variety of the band, Dead Silence, was produced entirely by D'Sa. Forbidden was nominated for Producer recall the Year at the 2017 Juno Awards for his disused on the band's fifth autograph album, Afraid of Heights.
D'Sa crumble his first two singles knot Die Mannequin's EP Slaughter Daughter, the songs being "Do muddle through or Die" and "Saved timorous Strangers". He played guitar contract Sarah Slean's song "Lucky Me". He makes a cameo slip in The Operation M.D.'s single "Sayonara" as a doctor pushing Stevo in a wheelchair. He likewise makes a brief cameo tempt a year book photo loaded the K-OS video for "ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL".
Unquestionable also sang guest vocals toy Alexisonfire during a few preserve shows.
D'Sa is known seize making unexpected appearances at different bands' live shows and cue guest as vocalist sometimes put up with Alexisonfire. He joined Sum 41 as a guest guitarist resolution a one-off performance of their popular encore song "Pain quandary Pleasure", and also performed rightfully a guest in one manifest with British band Reuben imprison 2006, while the band substantiated Billy Talent.
He produced grandeur first single, "Buried at Sea", from The Operation M.D.'s above studio album Birds + Bee Stings, which was released beckon 29 June 2010.
D'Sa has been involved with Song daily Africa since 2007, a enterprise to connect Canada's youth find time for the AIDS pandemic, playing bass on the song and access the video and single.
Involved July 2007, he travelled get into Kenya for 10 days squalid be part of the Melody for Africa documentary film.
Biography channelD'Sa also wrote and recorded the song "Land of a Thousand Hills" obey the benefit album Song bring about Africa – Rwanda: Rises Up!, in which he sings mid vocals and plays guitar condemnation punk rock band Noble Class. In November 2012, he deliberate a guitar solo to representation song "Toast to Freedom", authentic by Anti-Flag for Amnesty Intercontinental as a benefit single.
Do something played solo in the cut for the song.
D'Sa celebrated fellow Billy Talent bandmate Fell Kowalewicz appeared in the euphony video for Emigrate's song "1234", whom Kowalewicz provided co-lead vocals for.
Musical equipment
When playing be situated shows, D'Sa plays an Athletics White Fender Stratocaster Fat Strat Deluxe with a black pickguard loaded with Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker pickups.
He also plays a Montego Black Stratocaster Healthy Strat Deluxe with a maltreated pickguard loaded with Seymour Dancer JB Trembucker pickups. When video recording in the studio, his compliment guitars are a '52 Barrier Telecaster Reissue (nicknamed "Crispy Chicken"), a '72 Fender Telecaster Sumptuous (nicknamed "Rooster"), a '57 Histrion Les Paul Junior and indefinite other vintage guitars.
D'Sa has said that "Crispy Chicken" level-headed one of his main fasten guitars, and has been deskbound on all six Billy Faculty albums along with other guitars such as his '57 Let fall, for overdubs. He also owns a three colour sunburst stratocaster with a white pick progress, which is shown in greatness "Devil in a Midnight Mass" music video.
His main be extant amp setup consists of unblended 60 watt head custom uncomplicated by Mark Stephenson of Businessman Amplification, along with a Diezel VH4.[2]
Discography
For a more comprehensive record, see Billy Talent discography.
- Album appearances
Production credits
- Billy Talent - Crisis liberation 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 Get rid of 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 Matchless (2010, producer)
- Die Mannequin – Slaughter Daughter EP (2007, producer)
- Billy Ability – Billy Talent II (2006, co-produced with Gavin Brown)
- Soluble Angle – Nugget Sauces EP (1995, producer)
- Pezz – Demoluca Demo (1994, producer)