Nabeel Ahmed (DJ Desi) has been performing as an international deejay for the past 10 years. Since the early 90's he has been professionally providing music for clubs and commercial clients such as DKNY, Georgio Armani, and Marc Jacobs. He is the only South Asian DJ who holds the honors of working with world renowned fashion designers, having performed in over 20 prime-time fashion shows during his career.
Nabeel specializes in a wide variety of musical genres, including but not limited to Hindi, Oldies, Bhangra, Classic, Asian Underground, House, Club, Pakistani, Arabic, Hip Hop, Pop, Reggae, Latin, Trance, Techno, House, and Rock. Over the past decade, his unique remixes have attracted the interest of prominent international record labels such as Putumayo World Music and New World Records.
In addition to his diverse experience in both the fashion and club scenes, Nabeel is well-known for his philanthropic work. In 2005, he founded Desi Attitude Foundation to raise awareness of poverty, illiteracy in India and Pakistan, child labor, refugee children and the homeless in the United States. Through his Desi Attitude initiatives, Nabeel has organized homeless food drives, blood drives, and a children refugee project in the Washington, DC area, as well as helped launch the nonprofit organization Autism Behavioral Intervention in Sydney, Australia.
In 2008, Nabeel expanded djdesi.com service portfolio and began working as a producer. The name of djdesi.com was changed to DJ Desi Soundworks. Nabeel closely works with songwriter and a veteran music publisher Jerusha Ghazanfari. DJ Desi Soundworks is a company that represents independent artists for the placement of their music in film, television, soundtrack albums, as well as other media formats.
Jerusha Ghazanfari began the classical study of piano at the age of 11 and classical voice lessons at the age of 13. She continued on with the classical study of voice at Oklahoma State University and then later transferred to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee to broaden her musical knowledge with a BM in commercial vocal performance and a minor in music business. It was during her time at Belmont University that she discovered her passion for writing music and pursued this interest further as a music publisher with Emack Music from 2001-2005 and continued to write on her own and collaborate with other artists in the region as well. As a music publisher, Jerusha supervised her staff of songwriters administratively and creatively, as well as negotiated and obtained song cuts on national television shows on NBC, CBS, ABC, the WB Network, ABC Family, MTV, VH1, UPN, and ESPN. During her time as a music publisher, she also secured song cuts on Sony Pictures' films Something's Gotta Give, Spanglish, The Perfect Man and secured a "featured artist" spot for Relient K on the 2002 A&FTV Holiday episode in Abercrombie & Fitch stores nationwide.
Jerusha grew up listening to a wide variety of musical genres, ranging from Persian ballads to soul and Latin jazz and was influenced by these genres and many more in her own writing. Her musical style has been compared to artists George Winston and Tori Amos but with a Middle Eastern twist.
