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,

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, Gotthard and Krokus. A former

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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 compe ...

, 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. 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 ''

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'' 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

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

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, 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

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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 ''Sonic Dynamite'' is the seventh album by German band Pink Cream 69. Track listing Personnel *David Readman David Readman (born 6 July 1970) is an English singer best known as the vocalist of hard rock band Pink Cream 69 and former vo ...

'' * 2000: ''

Mixery (EP) ''Mixery'' is an EP by the German hard rock band Pink Cream 69 containing rare, live, acoustic and re-recorded tracks. Track listing Album notes * "King of My World" recorded during the sessions for '' Sonic Dynamite''. * "Shame" & "B ...

'' * 2001: ''

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'' * 2003: ''Live'' * 2004: '' Thunderdome'' * 2007: ''

'' * 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''

with Unisonic

*2012: ''

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

with Krokus

*2013: ''

Dirty Dynamite ''Dirty Dynamite'' is the seventeenth studio album from Swiss melodic hard rock band Krokus, released through The End Records in North America. It includes a cover of the Beatles song "Help!". Reception Since its release, the album has been me ...

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