Taurees Habib
Taurees Habib is a Pakistani and American sound engineer and music producer. He won a Grammy Award for his work in the film Dune: Part Two.
Early life and education
He was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. Habib has been involved in sound engineering and playing music since the age of 15. During his time in Karachi, Habib worked on the original play Karachi: The Musical, produced by Made For Stage Productions. He moved to Los Angeles in 2012. His younger brother, Ziyad Habib, is also involved in the Karachi indie music scene, having been a part of the band Mole and later founding Hear Now Records.He wrote, recorded, produced, and performed his own music under the name Bedlam Jackson. He later studied Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He was a part of an underground heavy metal scene as a teenager, he has described playing guitar and screaming vocals in a metal band.
Career
After he graduated from Berklee College of Music then he started working as a sampling director for composer Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions.He worked over 13 years working with Hans Zimmer at Remote Control Productions. He is the company's head of sampling, where he creates unique instrument sounds for movie scores. He scored music in films including Men of Steel, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, The Lion King, No Time to Die, and Top Gun: Maverick, Habib also contributed to the scores for Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, and Kung Fu Panda 4. In 2017, he voiced a character named Nawar in the podcast series Rose Drive. In 2025, He scored music for film F1.
In February 2025, Habib was awarded the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for his work on the Dune: Part Two soundtrack. He is the first Pakistani sound engineer to receive a Grammy but Habib is only the second Pakistani overall to win a Grammy, following vocalist Arooj Aftab, who won in 2022.
Habib has also released his own music, including the project Cannibal Cathedral, which was released in October 2025.