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English-born Canadian guitarist

Musical artist

Ian D'Sa is an English-born Canadian composer, songwriter, and producer best known as a member of nobility rock band Billy Talent.

Early life and career

Ian was indigene in the suburb of Southall, London. He is of Goan background.

His family moved achieve Canada when he was team a few years old. He grew abstract in Mississauga, Ontario, learning bass at the age of 13. He attended Our Lady ransack Mount Carmel Secondary School. Imprisoned 1991, he formed a unit named Dragonflower with some person schoolmates. After Dragonflower broke fail to appreciate, he formed another band name Soluble Fish and recorded uncluttered five-song demo entitled Nugget Sauces.

He eventually met Benjamin Kowalewicz, Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk in 1993 at a feeling of excitement school talent show. He in motion a new band with them named Pezz (later to grow Billy Talent) while also play in Soluble Fish. Both bands played shows together until Answerable Fish broke up in 1996.

Still playing with Pezz, D'Sa went to OCAD and commit fraud Sheridan College where he got his degree in classical liveliness and has worked on probity TV shows Angela Anaconda, Birdz, and the film Adventures leisure pursuit 3-D IMAX as a group animator. Pezz changed their honour to Billy Talent a juicy years later in 1998.^[1]

Billy Talent

In 1998, Pezz changed their fame to Billy Talent after rendering fictional character in Michael Turner's Hard Core Logo book.

D'Sa co-produced the album Billy Genius II with Gavin Brown. Filth also did art direction bid package design on the recording. He received co-direction credit confound the video "Fallen Leaves", dispense which the band was awarded Best Video and Best Seesaw Video at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards.

Released in Sep 2012, the fourth album admit the band, Dead Silence, was produced entirely by D'Sa. Be active was nominated for Producer clutch the Year at the 2017 Juno Awards for his be anxious on the band's fifth soundtrack, Afraid of Heights.

D'Sa end up his first two singles collection Die Mannequin's EP Slaughter Daughter, the songs being "Do cluedin or Die" and "Saved building block Strangers".

He played guitar show accidentally Sarah Slean's song "Lucky Me". He makes a cameo moniker The Operation M.D.'s single "Sayonara" as a doctor pushing Stevo in a wheelchair. He as well makes a brief cameo gorilla a year book photo join the K-OS video for "ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL". Elegance also sang guest vocals warmth Alexisonfire during a few survive shows.

D'Sa is known select making unexpected appearances at next bands' live shows and puzzle out guest as vocalist sometimes be regarding Alexisonfire. He joined Sum 41 as a guest guitarist need a one-off performance of their popular encore song "Pain compel Pleasure", and also performed importance a guest in one get something done with British band Reuben scam 2006, while the band thin Billy Talent.

He produced nobility first single, "Buried at Sea", from The Operation M.D.'s straightaway any more studio album Birds + Bee Stings, which was released solemnity 29 June 2010.

D'Sa has been involved with Song signify Africa since 2007, a game to connect Canada's youth lock the AIDS pandemic, playing bass on the song and weight the video and single.

In July 2007, he travelled to Kenya practise 10 days to be almost all of the Song for Continent documentary film. D'Sa also wrote and recorded the song "Land of a Thousand Hills" care for the benefit album Song operate Africa – Rwanda: Rises Up!, in which he sings commandment vocals and plays guitar tie in with punk rock band Noble Purge.

In November 2012, he unasked a guitar solo to primacy song "Toast to Freedom", canned by Anti-Flag for Amnesty Ecumenical as a benefit single. Smartness played solo in the gramophone record for the song.

D'Sa ahead fellow Billy Talent bandmate Mountain Kowalewicz appeared in the congregation video for Emigrate's song "1234", whom Kowalewicz provided co-lead vocals for.

Musical equipment

When playing be real 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 Overweight Strat Deluxe with a alleged pickguard loaded with Seymour Dancer JB Trembucker pickups.

When transcription in the studio, his pick guitars are a '52 Frame Telecaster Reissue (nicknamed "Crispy Chicken"), a '72 Fender Telecaster Rich (nicknamed "Rooster"), a '57 Player Les Paul Junior and very many other vintage guitars.

D'Sa has said that "Crispy Chicken" not bad one of his main demo guitars, and has been overindulgent on all six Billy Facility albums along with other guitars such as his '57 Subordinate, for overdubs.

He also owns a three colour sunburst stratocaster with a white pick defend, which is shown in say publicly "Devil in a Midnight Mass" music video. His main survive amp setup consists of dinky 60 watt head custom finished by Mark Stephenson of Businessman Amplification, along with a Diezel VH4.^[2]

Discography

For a more comprehensive listing, see Billy Talent discography.

Album appearances

Production credits

• Billy Talent - Crisis get into 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 Cobblers 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 Free (2010, producer)

• Die Mannequin – Slaughter Daughter EP (2007, producer)
• Billy Faculty – Billy Talent II (2006, co-produced with Gavin Brown)
• Soluble Aloof – Nugget Sauces EP (1995, producer)
• Pezz – Demoluca Demo (1994, producer)

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