Ian Michael D'Sa (born October 30, 1975 in the United Kingdom) is the guitarist for the Canadian band Billy Talent.
Ian's family moved from the UK to Canada when he was 3 years old. He is of Goan descent and grew up in Mississauga, Ontario learning guitar at the age of 13. While attending Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School in 1991, he formed a band named Dragonflower with some fellow schoolmates Two years later when Dragonflower broke up h...
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Ian Michael D'Sa (born October 30, 1975 in the United Kingdom) is the guitarist for the Canadian band Billy Talent.
Ian's family moved from the UK to Canada when he was 3 years old. He is of Goan descent and grew up in Mississauga, Ontario learning guitar at the age of 13. While attending Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School in 1991, he formed a band named Dragonflower with some fellow schoolmates Two years later when Dragonflower broke up he formed another band named Soluble Fish and recorded a five song demo entitled Nugget Sauces. He eventually met Benjamin Kowalewicz, Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk in 1993 at the highschool talent show. While also playing in Soluble Fish, he started a new band with them named Pezz (later to become "Billy Talent") in which both bands played together for several years until Soluble fish broke up in 1996. While playing in Pezz, D'Sa went to Sheridan College where he got his degree in classical animation and even worked on the TV shows...
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