Kosta Zafiriou is a Swiss musician and

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, one of the owners of Bottom Row Promotion company, which currently manages the bands Unisonic,

Helloween Helloween is a German power metal band founded in 1984 in Hamburg by members of bands Iron Fist, Gentry, Second Hell and Powerfool. Its first lineup consisted of singer and guitarist Kai Hansen, bassist Markus Grosskopf, guitarist Michael Weika ...

Axxis Axxis is a German heavy metal band that was founded in 1988. Their debut album, '' Kingdom of the Night'', became the best-selling debut album by a hard rock band in Germany in 1989. Biography Axxis' musical roots lie within the traditional ...

, Gotthard and Krokus. A former

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest h ...

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, Zafiriou is known as one of the founding members of bands

Pink Cream 69 Pink Cream 69 is a German hard rock/ heavy metal band founded in 1987 in Karlsruhe by Andi Deris, Dennis Ward, Kosta Zafiriou and Alfred Koffler. The band gained their first contract by winning music magazine ''Metal Hammer''s newcomer compet ...

, Place Vendome and Unisonic.

Biography

Zafiriou started to play drums at the age of 16. His first band was Redline, where he played with the guitarist Alfred Koffler, in 1982. Later in 1986 he joined the band Kymera where he played with vocalist

Andi Deris Andreas "Andi" Deris (born 18 August 1964) is a German singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of the metal band Pink Cream 69. Singing style Deris has a high baritone ...

. Kymera recorded two EPs with Zafiriou and Deris before they left to form the band

with guitarist Alfred Koffler and bassist Dennis Ward in 1987. Zafiriou played with Pink Cream 69 from their '' debut album'' to their tenth '' In10sity'' before leaving the band in 2012. Zafiriou and Pink Cream 69 bandmate Dennis Ward have also worked with two projects together with ex-Helloween vocalist

Michael Kiske Michael Kiske (born January 24, 1968) is a German singer and lead vocalist for the German power metal band Helloween. Kiske has released four solo albums, two albums with the hard rock band Unisonic, has participated on various metal and roc ...

: Place Vendome, a melodic rock studio project created by the record company

Frontiers Records Frontiers Music – formerly Frontiers Records – is an Italian record label, predominantly producing hard rock. It was founded in 1996 by Serafino Perugino and is based in Naples. History In 1996, Serafino Perugino started working in the m ...

, and Unisonic, a hard rock band managed by Zafiriou that released their first album and did the first world tour in 2012, also marking the first full collaboration by ex-Helloween members Michael Kiske and

Kai Hansen Kai Michael Hansen (born 17 January 1963) is a German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of metal band Helloween, which he rejoined in 2016. He is a prominent ...

in a band since Kai's departure from Helloween. Zafiriou also recorded albums and played a few shows with bands

, Krokus and with vocalist D. C. Cooper, as a drummer. On 6 September 2016 Zafiriou announced his retirement as a professional drummer, remaining his job as music manager.A message from Kosta
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Discography

with Pink Cream 69

* 1989: ''

'' * 1991: ''

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'' * 1993: '' Games People Play'' * 1995: ''

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'' * 1997: '' Food for Thought'' * 1998: ''

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'' * 2000: '' Sonic Dynamite'' * 2000: '' Mixery (EP)'' * 2001: ''

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'' * 2003: ''Live'' * 2004: '' Thunderdome'' * 2007: '' In10sity'' * 2009: ''Live in Karlsruhe''

with D.C. Cooper

* 1999: '' D.C. Cooper''

with Axxis

* 2004: ''Time Machine'' * 2011: ''20 Years of Axxis''

with Place Vendome

* 2005: '' Place Vendome'' * 2009: ''

Streets of Fire ''Streets of Fire'' is a 1984 American neo-noir rock musical film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It is described in the opening credits and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable" and is a mix of various movie genres wi ...

with Unisonic

*2012: '' Ignition'' (EP) *2012: '' Unisonic'' *2014: '' For the Kingdom'' (EP) *2014: '' Light of Dawn'' *2017: '' Live in Wacken''

with Krokus

*2013: '' Dirty Dynamite''

References

External links

Unisonic official website

Russian website of Pink Cream 69

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zafiriou, Kosta 1966 births Living people People from Zofingen Swiss drummers Swiss male musicians Male drummers Rock drummers Swiss people of Greek descent Unisonic (band) members Pink Cream 69 members