Kosta Zafiriou

Kosta Zafiriou is a Swiss musician and music manager, one of the owners of Bottom Row Promotion company, which currently manages the bands Helloween, Axxis, Gotthard and Krokus. A former hard rock drummer, Zafiriou is known as one of the founding members of bands Pink Cream 69, 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 Pink Cream 69 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: Place Vendome, a melodic rock studio project created by the record company Frontiers Records, 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 in a band since Kai's departure from Helloween.

Zafiriou also recorded albums and played a few shows with bands Axxis, 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.

Discography with Pink Cream 69 1989: Pink Cream 69 1991: One Size Fits All 1993: Games People Play 1995: Change 1997: Food for Thought 1998: Electrified 2000: Sonic Dynamite 2000: Mixery (EP) 2001: Endangered 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

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