Balázs Zságer

Zsager was the keyboardist and co-writer of Yonderboi wide cult-album, Shallow and Profound. This record was distributed world wide and it won the Golden Giraffe prize in Hungary. As a member of the Yonderboi Quintet he have played on more than 160 gigs all around the continent. Some tracks of their project were licensed by the BBC and the Channel 4 Television. In 2002 he founded a new band called Zagar which is now a well-known headliner band of the Hungarian electronic music scene. Their debut album, Local Broadcast was selected as one of the 50 all-time most important Hungarian records by WAN2, Hungary's leading music magazine. Their latest album, Cannot Walk Fly Instead has been released last year on the German label Mole Listenig Pearls worldwide. This record entered the top 10 charts immediately in Hungary. Their hit-single Wings of Love, featuring the Underground Divas - six of Hungary's most popular independent singers - earned heavy radio airplay and secured a no1. spot on MTV's video chart. They have earned numerous awards for this record, most notably the Hungarian Record Industry's Fonogram Award and second prize in the International Songwriting Competition 2008. Zagar was nominated for the Best Local Act in the MTV European Music Awards 2008 and 2009 also. Zagar supported Depeche Mode at the Budapest leg of the Tour of the Universe 2009. He is the producer one of the freshest Hiungarian electro project called Demon Superiror. They claim to be playing fashion-electro, which really says it all. Demon Superior create their own post-modern dance music with a refreshingly unique attitude using bits and pieces from soviet child-choir and forgotten Eastern European cartoons. Besides their own tracks, their live acts are flavored with powerful reworks (Falco, David Bowie, Edith Piaf, Krafwerk..etc.) Zsager's unique sound has been incorporated into short and feature films and their tracks appear several times in popular TV series like CSI:Miami and CSI:New York. He compose music for feature and short films (Szezon/Eastern Sugar, Tower, Beautiful Wilds, Monuments, Live..etc.) and music for theatre also (Hungarian National Theater, Csiky Gergely Theatre, Tap Theatre..etc.) The soundtrack album of a feature film, Eastern Sugar won the The Hungarian Film Critics' Award 2005. Currently He is one of the most famous artist of the Hungarian independent music scene.