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 Zacky was born in Greece and started drumming at the age of ten, after he was taught five lessons by a hungarian teacher in Germany and played some greek music together with his uncle.
Zacky recorded his first CD with the band "Attack" in the year 1989, which was sold international. He recorded two more CDs before he joined the band of John Hayes (the guitar player of "Mother's Finest"). In 1996, he was in Los Angeles as a guest student at the MI (Music Institute), 1998 he played a tour in Germany with Juliane Werding. In this year, he recorded as well the "5000 Watts" CD. In the year 2000 he played with the band "Fair Warning" as a support act for "Staus Quo" and afterwards they did a tour in Japan. After the tour he joined the band "Soul Doctor" and recorded three CDs with them. Another tour in Japan followed, succeeded by two european tours and lots of festivals.In 2002, Zacky played a world tour with the afghan singer Farhad Darya. In the year after, the famous italian singer Al Bano Carrisi ("Al Bano & Romina Power") could win the greek extra-class-drummer over. With him, Zacky played a world tour in 2005 and was asked to play the album for Al Bano's daughter Christel Carrisi, who as well is a well-known italian singer. 2005, with the swiss singer and actress Mia Aegerter, Zacky also played a tour in Germany (together with Ronan Keating) and Switzerland, followed by some festivals. Since 2004, he is the drummer of the "Helmut Zerlett Band", which is famous for being the Band of the "Harald-Schmidt-TV Show". As a Yamaha endorser, Zacky already played several workshops for this company, carrying him to the drummer's festivals in Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary and Montreux/Switzerland. A Yamaha tour followed with the guitar player Marcus Deml and the bass player Frank Itt, who are as well known as "Errorhead", an own project of Marcus Deml. During the Musik Messe 2007 he played with Billy Sheehan. Zacky's discography:
1989: Attack - Destinies Of War (Zyx Records)
1994: Attack - Revitalize (Iceland Records)
1995: Attack – The Secret Place (Iceland Records)
1997: 5000 Watts – Life Of Choice (High Gain Records)
1998: Mickey Meinert – Alles Ohne Gewähr (Blaze Records)
1999: John Hayes – Don’t Ya Wanna (Goodlife Records)
2000: John Hayes – Feel Tension Release (Goodlife Records)
2001: Soul Doctor – Soul Doctor (Masacre Records)
2002: Soul Doctor – Systems Go Wild (Point Musik)
2005: Soul Doctor – For A Fistful Of Dollars (Frontiers Records)
2006: Dean Collins – Go Big Or Go Home (ZYX Music)
2006: Zacky – Kaleidoscope (Fuego Records)
2007: Mickey Meinert – Hinundher (para-dise.biz) Zacky's tour credits:
Fair Warning (Deutschland und Japan, 2000)
Soul Doctor (Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweiz und Japan, 2001 und 2002)
Farhad Darya (World Tour 2002 und 2005)
Al Bano Carrisi (World Tour, Europa, USA, Kanada, 2004/2005)
Mia Aegerter (Deutschland, Schweiz, 2005)
5000 Watts
Rick Abao
Errorhead
Michael Fitz
John Hayes (Mother's Finest)
Levi John
Daniel Lopes
Mickey Meinert
Moses Mo (Mother's Finest)
Ninety Nine
Revolution
Helmut Zerlett Band |
Andrew kommt wie Zacky aus der Nähe von Detmold genauer gesagt aus Augustdorf. Dort gründete er im zarten Alter von 18 Jahren die Britfunk-Band „Slapjack“, mit der er 1985 den WDR Stadtmusik-Preis gewann. Damit waren für Andrew die Weichen gestellt. 
I started playing Bass very late at the age of 18. Fortunately I had the chance play in a Blues-Band already one year later. At the same time my british friend Marc and I startet our first band called “The Touch". Two years of rehearsing and some personel changes had the result of our first little record-deal. After this band splitted only the vocalist named “Terence Trent D''Arby" made it with international success. In 1985 I had the offer to play with “Jennifer Rush" in her Tour-Band. I did this for two years. This was the entrance to Tour-Band of “Howard Carpendale", a very successful MOR-Act in Germany. I still play in this band.
