His influences are largely soul/funk but also include: Eddie Kendricks, Isaac Hayes, Candi Staton, Otis Redding, Elvis Presley, Zapp, The Stylistics, O'Jays, Bill Withers, Lyrics Born, Sparlha Swa, Slave, Midnight Star, Stevie Wonder (pre-1980), Al Green, etc.

His remix of Fierce Ruling Diva's "You Gotta Believe" spent a week at #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart in 2002.

[4] In August 2009, Sharaz began releasing a bi-weekly online mixcast named "Return to Planet Boom".

In recent years, Sharaz has released two additional albums, "The Boogie Monster" in 2014 and "Unlike The Others" in 2019, the latter of which is a mixture of traditional breakbeat cuts and retro electro dance and synthwave music.

In 2014, Sharaz released a 260 track limited edition anthology flash drive entitled "Escape to Planet of the Bass", funded entirely by Kickstarter.