Born and raised in Halifax, NS, Dilshan is an artist, musician, and music scholar. He studied jazz guitar at Dalhousie University with Scott Macmillan, performing with artists such as Michael Kaeshammer, Regina Carter, multi-JUNO winner Hilario Duran, and GRAMMY nominee Ignacio Berroa. Completing his Masters in Musicology from Dalhousie in 2019, his academic work centers on Hip-hop, Blackness and Black performance, sonic Afro-Modernity, and creative scholarship. He has studied and performed with artists from a range of disciplines, from jazz guitarist Lorne Lofsky, to composer and Chance the Rapper collaborator JoVia Armstrong, to Guggenheim award winners such as poet Brian Teare and composer and flutist Nicole Mitchell. In 2022 and 2023, he collaborated alongside Nathaniel Cole and Nathan "DB" Simmons on sound installations, debuting at Nocturne Halifax, listed by The Coast as one of the five can't-miss projects of the festival. Currently, he is gearing up for the release of his debut album re:fuge (read as "refuge"), a live album recorded last year that looks to connections between Afro-surrealism, Hip-hop, improvisation, and Afrodiasporic musical language, to explore the concept of building a space of refuge through music. Dilshan’s artistic interests include Hip-hop, Jazz, Neo-soul, improvisation, as well as questions around artistic form, creative practice, and storytelling. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Music exploring these topics, working with award winning Hip-hop artist, educator, and scholar, A.D Carson.