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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. ==Musical career== 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. Zinny's work with Easy Action included one album as well as a Swedish slasher movie titled ''Blood Tracks'', for which Easy Action both provided the music 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zinny J. Zan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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