Javed Nadeem Kurd (born 1967) is a

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. He was born in

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to a Pakistani father and a Norwegian mother, but they soon moved to

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. Kurd took partial education at both the Kristiansand Music Conservatory and the

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. Since 1997 he has worked as a producer for the Norwegian participants in the Eurovision Song Contest. The only exceptions were in 2002, where Norway was not allowed to participate, and in 2005. For the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation he has worked with the music program ''Beat for beat'', and made the theme music for ''Sommeråpent'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He worked with

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in her television show ''Piano piano'' and other aspects of her career since 1997. He has also produced albums for The Monroes,

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and

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. He is married, and lives in

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