Zinny J. Zan is the former lead-singer for Shotgun Messiah and is currently the founder and frontman for Zan Clan and reunited Easy Action.
Zinny J. Zan is probably best known internationally as the original lead-singer for the 80s Glam metal

Glam metal

Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 band Shotgun Messiah

Shotgun Messiah

Shotgun Messiah were a glam metal band originally from Sweden; they crossed over to industrial rock music during the early 1990s.-First Era, 1985-1991:...

 (1986–1990). However he was already well known in his home country of Sweden by the time he was 18, when his band Easy Action

Easy Action (band)

Easy Action is a glam metal band that was formed in 1982 by Kee Marcello and Alex Tyrone . The two played together in the Swedish glam act Noice when they decided to start the ultimate glam rock band, mixing their influences of 70's glam with a punk/metal attitude. They met the singer Zinny J...

 (1983–1985) toured Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

 and was soon signed to a contract with Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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.
Easy action was the first Swedish music artist ever to sign a world wide deal.

Zinny's work with Easy Action included one album as well as a Swedish slasher movie titled "Blood Tracks

Blood Tracks

Blood Tracks is a crime novel by the American writer Karen Rose Cercone set in 1905 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It tells the story of detective Milo Kachigan and his investigation of a murder of an engineer for the Westinghouse Air Brake Company....

" for which Easy Action both provided the music as well as starred in.

After a few years of enjoying local success touring the Scandinavia region, Zinny wanted the band to try to make a go of it in the U.S.

United States

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, while the other members of the band were hesitant to leave their home country.