INTERVIEW W/ RISING INDIE ARTIST KDEE HOSTED BY DAMIAN SANDERS

KDee (born Sheraz Mohammed, July 5th, 1991) is a Trinidadian Reggae/Dancehall Soca deejay.

He was born at San Fernando General Hospital, and is one of three children. Initially from La Romain, he was raised in the San Fernando district. Sheraz attended TML Primary School where he left to the United States before writing common entrance to further his education at the age of ten. Indomitable to further his studies in America, he attended James M. Kieran Junior High School for Pre Engineering. Furthermore he completed his Diploma at Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School. After taking a year beak from studies, KDee decided to enroll in ASA The College for Excellence where he received his Associates in Occupational Studies Degree for Network Administration and Security.

Sheraz alias KDee was a naturalist of music at a tender age, he was exposed to a wide variety of genres from family members being that his father and sister were both singers in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. His father practiced and performed songs of the late Bollywood song stars Mohammed Rafi and Mukesh Chand Mathur. His sister also practiced and performed songs from the greatest female Bollywood song star till this day, Lata Mangeshkar. KDee’s elder brother was not a singer but listened to Reggae Culture and Conscious music daily from artists such as Bob Marley, Sizzla, Capleton, Richie Spice, etc.

At the age of thirteen his favorites included artists such as Vybz Kartel, Aidonia, Beenie Man, etc. He would listen and study their lyrics word-for-word and later sang it to friends.