Epic Mazur
Epic Mazur (* 31 August 1970 in Brooklyn , New York City ; bourgeois Bret Mazur Hadley ) is an American rapper, singer and producer. He is best known for his time with the nu-metal band Crazy Town , of which he co-founded, fronted and produced.
biography
Private life
Mazur grew up in Brooklyn, New York and later in Hollywood ( Los Angeles ), and he has a son named Max, who was born in 1996. He is of Jewish descent and is related to the actress Monet Mazur , whose cousin he is. Mazur graduated from William Howard Taft High School in Los Angeles.
Beginnings
in Hollywood he started as a DJ at the age of 16. During this time, one of his friends gave him the pseudonym "Epic", with which he is known to the public to this day. Later he formed a duo with the then unknown music producer Richard Wolf, which was called Wolf & Epic . The duo produced for Bell Biv DeVoe, Ralph Tresvant , MC Lyte and MC Serch , among others .
Crazy Town
In 1995 Mazur collaborated with Seth Binzer , who later became known as Shifty Shellshock. He got to know Binzer through the rapper and singer Will.i.am , for whose band The Black Eyed Peas , which was then still called Atban Klaan , he produced songs. The two formed a band and initially called themselves The Brimstone Sluggers . At the beginning of 1999 the band already consisted of seven members and was now called Crazy Town . The debut album The Gift of Game was released in November 1999 and initially received little attention, but this changed after the globally successful number 1 single Butterfly , which Mazur and his band suddenly made world famous. The album also sold significantly better and achieved gold status in several countries (including Germany). After the second album Darkhorse flopped commercially, the band broke up, this was in 2002.
In 2007 the band reformed and Mazur announced that they were working on a third studio album entitled Crazy Town Is Back . The album was due to be released in February 2008 shortly after Mazur's solo album Strip to This , but neither album was released.
In 2014 he became head of department for the Sugar Studios LA recording studio, and in 2015 his band's third album was finally released, entitled The Brimstone Sluggers , at which time the band consisted only of founding members Mazur and Binzer. Even if the album was not torn apart by the criticism and the band helped a little out of the blue, it was not a success from a commercial point of view. Mazur then toured with Crazy Town until 2017, when he announced his second exit from the band on his Facebook account.
He produced the score for the 2018 film The Oath .
Web links
- Official account on Instagram
Individual evidence
- ^ Bret “Epic” Mazur X Fluid Audio . Mixware, LLC. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazur, Epic |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mazur, Bret Hadley (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rapper, singer and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |