Year : 2022
Style : Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 116 mb
Bio:
Zinny J. Zan (born Bo Stagman on January 18, 1964 and earlier known as Bosse Belsen) is a Swedish rock/glam metal singer who is the former lead-singer for Shotgun Messiah and is currently the founder and frontman for Zan Clan and reunited Easy Action.Zinny J. Zan is probably best known internationally as the original lead singer for the 1980s glam metal band Shotgun Messiah (1985–90). However, he was already well known in his native Sweden by the time he was 18, when his band Easy Action (1981–85) toured Scandinavia and soon thereafter signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records. Easy Action was the first Swedish music artist ever to sign a worldwide deal.His music career started earlier when he played drums in band such as Belsen Boys, Alarm X and Beauty Box. He was also singer in Brilliant Boys.Zinny's work with Easy Action included one album as well as a Swedish slasher movie titled Blood Tracks, which Easy Action both provided the music for and starred in.After a few years of enjoying local success touring the Scandinavia region, Zinny wanted the band to try to make a go of it in the U.S., while the other members of the band were hesitant to leave their home country. These conflicting views eventually prompted Zinny to leave Sweden for New York and start looking for a new band.He was soon contacted by fellow Swedes Tim Sköld and Harry Cody and asked to join Kingpin (the band that would eventually become Shotgun Messiah). While still performing under the name Kingpin, the band recorded the album Welcome to Bop City. After being signed to Relativity Records and relocating to Hollywood, California, they changed their name to Shotgun Messiah and remixed and released the Bop City album as Shotgun Messiah's self-titled debut album.The album Shotgun Messiah was a moderate success, spawning three fairly popular singles as well as two music videos for MTV and reaching #52 on the American Billboard chart. Eventually though, personality and creative differences between Harry, Tim and Zinny began to grow and led to Zinny's departure from Shotgun Messiah in 1990.After the split, Zinny went back to Stockholm to recalibrate, but due to various personal problems (a divorce, the death of his father, his sister's cancer diagnosis, and his own battle with a stomach disease), it would be over four years before the eventual 1994 release of the album Citizen of Wasteland, credited to his new band Zan Clan. The album saw rather limited success.In 2002, Zinny would record and release the solo album City Boy Blues which enjoyed moderate commercial and critical success in Scandinavia and earned distinction as the "Comeback Album of the Year" in the UK´s Classic Rock Magazine but failed to garner much attention in the U.S.Zinny then signed a TV contract to be the Tour Manager and Mentor for a band called Tribal Ink for the TV show Wannabe in 2002.Shortly thereafter, Zinny would resurrect the Zan Clan with a new line up including producer/guitarist/songwriter friend Chris Laney. In 2005, the Zan Clan released the album We Are Zan Clan, Who The Fuck Are You in addition to opening a series of shows in Europe for Whitesnake and Queensrÿche.In 2006, Zinny reunited with his former Easy Action bandmate, guitarist Kee Marcello (who had served a stint in the band Europe in the interim) for a Reunion gig at Sweden Rock Festival. This performance led to more shows for Easy Action, including serving as the opening act for Twisted Sister on their farewell tour in 2007.In 2008, Easy Action released a new single "Jack's Back" (Produced by Chris Laney) and opened up The Speedway Grand Prix at Ullevi in Gothenburg. This tune remained on the singles chart in Sweden for weeks.At one point later in the 2000s, it was reported that Zinny and Easy Action were finishing up the recording of their new album, which had the working title of Looking Up Your Old Address. However, in 2013, it was revealed that the Looking Up Your Old Address album would not be released, as Easy Action had split up once again, with Kee and Zinny parting ways.Zinny was heavily influenced by such bands as Aerosmith, Kiss, Sex Pistols, and Thin Lizzy, inspirations which are reflected in his songwriting and singing style.In addition to his work with numerous bands, he has also performed on several tribute albums. He contributed to the FastLane Records release Tricked Out, a tribute to Cheap Trick, where he performed the CT hit "Surrender." He later also contributed a cover version of the Thin Lizzy song "Dedication" to the A Tribute to Phil Lynott album.
Album:
Former Shotgun Messiah and Easy Action frontman ZINNY ZAN is back with a new band and an excellent and varied rock album. Following a few years and albums in a singer-songwriter style, Zinny Zan’s new album “Lullabies for the Masses” is a return to rock n’ roll. It is a grown-up and quite varied rock album.We get an interesting mix of great songs on a solid LP by a man and his band that know what they want to deliver. There are straightforward and catchy high-energy melodic hard rock songs such as “Heartbreak City” – a highlight, with a killer Shotgun Messiah vibe – “Welcome to the Show” and “Let It Rock”.We get more contemporary-sounding rock songs such as “Bombs Away”, “Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive” and “The One”, while “Heal the Pain” and “Goodbye to Yesterday” are acoustic ballads of the kind that the hair metal bands of the late ’80s had to include on their albums.We even get an unexpected but terrific Depeche Mode cover, “It’s No Good” (yes, he pulls that off brilliantly). What a great album!Zinny Zan’s career in music started with punk rock in the late 70s. He then became a glam rocker with Easy Action in the early ’80s and continued his hard rock journey with Shotgun Messiah and Zan Clan before switching gears and turning himself into a singer-songwriter who released several great albums with all-Swedish lyrics.Now, at the age of 58, Zinny is all grown up and has put together an album that ties it all together. Past, present and future. This is Zinny Zan in 2022.While the album is released in Zinny’s name and it is him alone on the cover, this version of Zinny Zan is a band where guitarist Stefan Bergström and bassist Hogge Calmroth have made significant contributions to the creation of the songs and the sound. Both of them have honed their skills in Matti Alfonzetti’s band Skintrade.No official announcement has been made about who plays the drums on the album, although former Afrodite, Drain Sth and Snake River Conspiracy member Martina Axén appears as the drummer in the video for the track “It’s No Good”.I have always loved the performer Zinny Zan and all the different eras and musical styles of his career. It is quite a journey that Zinny has made, and his new band and album are showing us that this man is not done yet. He is evolving and he’s still got it.
Line Up:
Zinny J Zan - Vocals - See also: Shotgun Messiah, Easy Action, ex-Belsen Boys, ex-Alarm X, ex-Beauty Box, ex-Brilliant Boys
Stefan Bergstrom - Guitar
Hogge Calmroth - Bass
Tracklist:
01. Heartbreak City (03:51)
02. Bombs Away (03:51)
03. It's No Good (04:17)
04. Heal the Pain (03:39)
05. Nobody Gets out of Here Alive (03:53)
06. Welcome to the Show (03:39)
07. Let It Rock (03:45)
08. Goodbye to Yesterday (03:58)
09. The One (03:56)
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