Billy Talent
In 2000 Pezz changed their name to Billy Talent after the fictional character in Micheal Turner's Hard Core Logo book (latter adapted to film by Bruce McDonald). D'Sa co-produced Billy Talent II with Gavin Brown. He also did art direction and package design on the Billy Talent II album. He received co-direction credit for the video "Fallen Leaves", for which the band was awarded Best Video and Best Rock Video at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards.
Released in September 2012, the fourth album of the band, Dead Silence, is entirely produced by the guitarist Ian D'Sa.
D'Sa produced first two singles on Die Mannequin's EP Slaughter Daughter, the songs being "Do it or Die" and "Saved By Strangers". He played guitar on Sarah Slean's song "Lucky Me". He makes a cameo in The Operation M.D.'s single "Sayonara" as a doctor pushing Stevo in a wheelchair. He also makes a brief cameo as a year book photo in the K-OS video for ELEctrik HeaT - The Seekwill. He also sung guest vocals with Alexisonfire during a few live shows.
Ian is known for his unexpected appearances at fellow bands live shows. He is known to guest many times as vocalist in some random shows of Alexisonfire. He has also joined Sum 41 as a guest guitarist for a one-off performance of their popular encore song "Pain for Pleasure". He also performed as a guest in one show with UK band Reuben in 2006, while the band supported Billy Talent.
Ian produced the first single "Buried at Sea" from The Operation M.D.'s second studio album Birds + Bee Stings, which was released on June 29, 2010.
Ian also wrote and recorded the song "Land of a Thousand Hills" for the charity album Song for Africa - Rwanda: Rises Up! in which he sings lead vocals and plays guitar with Canadian punk rock band Noble Blood.
D'Sa has been involved with Song for Africa since 2007, a project to connect Canada's youth to the AIDS pandemic, playing guitar on the song and in the video and single. In July 2007 he traveled to Kenya, Africa for 10 days to be part of the Song for Africa Documentary film.
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