FIZ IZ
JT (John Tavares) - Lead Vocal, Keyboards, Guitar
Cisco - Rhymes, Supporting Vocals
Amos (Amos Zollo) - Drums
Stevo (Steve Ashcraft) - Bass Guitar
Biku (Bret Shimabuku) - Keyboards
Bucky (Buck Giles) - Guitar
What do you get when you mix island reggae musicians with a funk rock Hawaiian steel guitar player a ska man and multi instrumentalist singer songwriter rhymers who are all influenced by Hawaiian, Jamaican and American music? You get an eclectic cocktail of music well shaken not stirred served up with the perfect amount of FIZ to sonically enhance your biochemistry.
FIZ members were among Hawaii's early 1990's reggae and alternative underground original music scene influencers who played in some of Hawaii’s most popular bands of that era (Frogchild, Dread Ashanti, Maacho and the Cool Connection, Go jimmy Go, Urchinz, Roots Natty Roots, Lament for Zollo, Rockers Rights, East Side Wrecking Crew) as well as new millennial trail blazers that have carried on the original music torch and created The Rising Melody, a thriving singer songwriter show case. Over the many years they have known each other but had never collaborated until now. Knock, Knock, Knock... Who is it?…. IT'S THE FIZ!
