Shafat Qazi

[3] Qazi obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India.

[6] He later pursued a master's degree in structural engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

[6] After completing his education, Qazi moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to pursue his career in engineering.

He created a music brand called IBM with singers Mohammed Irfan, Bilal, and Mehmeet Syed.

He produced Songs of Paradise, a feature film inspired by the songs of Raj Begum and narrates the story of a Kashmiri woman who faced the barriers of societal norms in the late 1940s, particularly regarding the acceptability of women singing publicly in Kashmir and neighboring cities.