Javed Nadeem Kurd (born 1967) is a Pakistani- Norwegian music producer. He was born in London to a Pakistani father and a Norwegian mother, but they soon moved to Kristiansand. Kurd took partial education at both the Kristiansand Music Conservatory and the University of Oslo. Since 1997 he has worked as a producer for the Norwegian participants in the

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. The only exceptions were in 2002, where Norway was not allowed to participate, and in

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. For the

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he has worked with the music program ''Beat for beat'', and made the theme music for ''Sommeråpent'', '' Nytt på nytt'' and '' Den store klassefesten''. He worked with Ingrid Bjørnov in her television show ''Piano piano'' and other aspects of her career since 1997. He has also produced albums for The Monroes, Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan. He is married, and lives in Heggedal.

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1967 births Living people Norwegian record producers NRK people Norwegian people of Pakistani descent {{Norway-music-bio-stub