And the Hello and welcome to Soi Jaker on songwriting episode 109.

This is Brian here with Simon and joining us today is a Mobo Award winning British record producer, songwriter,

musician and DJ who's an eight pop savvy, boundless creative energy and infectious

enthusiasm have made him one of the most in-demand names in the music industry.

To date, he's worked with the illustrious likes of Ed Sheerin, Emily Sanday, Sam Smith, Brittany Spears, Janet Jackson,

Missy Elliot, Tiny Tempore and Beyoncé to name a few.

It's our great pleasure to welcome the delightful Shahe Khan, aka Nause Boy, to the show.

We met with Shaheed at his studio in Ealing, West London in late October this year.

Just a couple of weeks after our interview with his good friend and collaborator Emily Sanday.

We found him to be a very welcoming and genial fellow indeed.

You'll hear our chat in just a couple of minutes after we've told you a bit about our

guest.

Sheheed hails from Watford, just north north of London where he was born in 1985.

It's always sobering when our guests are younger than us, don't you find?

It is indeed.

He had a casual interest in music throughout his youth, teaching himself to play the piano and was

stared by the Bollywood movie soundtracks he had at home, but never really

took it seriously as a career option until after leaving school.

That's right and he didn't actually begin making his own music in earnest until he was 21.

In 2005 after leaving a music technology course on which he'd recently enrolled,

he applied for a grant from the Prince's Trust which he won and plowed into purchasing recording equipment,

following which he swiftly converted his parents shed into a studio and I think it was around that time

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