DB&Z – Drummer Bear & Zangief
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Listen in now as Drummer Bear Mike Fass & Zangief, aka, the Red Cyclone, from Street Fighter fame, interview exciting guests from the world of show business – some names well-known to you, and some not so familiar names.
Our show follows the format of the TV talk show, with Drummer Bear & Zangief acting as show co-hosts.
Drummer Bear Mike Fass – Co-Host
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 1st, 1959.
Veteran entertainer (musician. actor, model. stand-up comic, recording artist, singer), illustrator, builder, athlete whose career began in the 1970s.
Venues and mediums:
Night clubs, cabaret, auditoriums, concert halls, theater, animation, cinema, radio, television, web series, talk shows, records, web music formats, voiceover work including cartoon voices, print, ads, blogs. sitcoms. Award winner as well as nominee and title holder.
Distinctions:
First self identified bear to star in a mainstream worldwide hit series. First man to win the title of Mr. Stonewall Bear (2011). Nominated Best Musician at the 2007 Bear Music Awards in Nashville. Named one of the Top 10 Most Popular Stars of the Web in 2007, making it to Number 6.
First recording artist to blend electro-funk and pop music to create that which would become known as “freestyle”, making him “The Father of Freestyle”. Second screen actor to portray Zangief in a mainstream Street Fighter production.
Zangief – Co-Host
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 1st, 1959.
Veteran entertainer (musician. actor, model. stand-up comic, recording artist, singer), illustrator, builder, athlete whose career began in the 1970s.
Venues and mediums:
Night clubs, cabaret, auditoriums, concert halls, theater, animation, cinema, radio, television, web series, talk shows, records, web music formats, voiceover work including cartoon voices, print, ads, blogs. sitcoms. Award winner as well as nominee and title holder.
Distinctions:
First self identified bear to star in a mainstream worldwide hit series. First man to win the title of Mr. Stonewall Bear (2011). Nominated Best Musician at the 2007 Bear Music Awards in Nashville. Named one of the Top 10 Most Popular Stars of the Web in 2007, making it to Number 6.
First recording artist to blend electro-funk and pop music to create that which would become known as “freestyle”, making him “The Father of Freestyle”. Second screen actor to portray Zangief in a mainstream Street Fighter production.
Born Nikolas Zangiefyedkov on June 6th, 1956, in Dnepropovinsk near Girovsibirsk, Soviet Russia.
His brute physical strength as a boy believed to have been the result of experiments conducted on his parents to improve their work output by the steel refinery at which they were employed.
Worked at the Bilsk Steel Works, the same steel refinery, in his adult years, at which his parents had died in an industrial accident.
Served out a sentence on death row in punishment for a crime for which he was framed by police. Granted his freedom to represent Russia in the Street Fighter II tournaments in the middle east in 1991.
Rose to victory and fame as Zangief under the title of The Red Cyclone. Became one of the elite World Warriors in the popular Street Fighter franchise.
Check out episodes of DB&Z!
SERIES 1 - EPISODE1
Special Guest: Author, Actor, Stuntman, Stunt choreography, Teel James Glenn.
SERIES 1 - EPISODE 2
Special Guest: Comedian, Peter Bisuito.
SERIES 1 - EPISODE 3
Special Guests: Independent filmmaker, Chris .R. Notarile, and Writer and Stortyteller, Allen Ray Feeman.