Background
Bret Mazur grew up in Brooklyn, New York before his parents moved across the country to Hollywood, Los Los Angeles
Bret Mazur grew up in Brooklyn, New York before his parents moved across the country to Hollywood, Los Los Angeles
Mazur graduated from William Howard Taft High School in Los Los Angeles
lieutenant was here that he began to work as a DJ at age 16, and received the pseudonym "Epic" from a friend. He then collaborated with Richard Wolf as part of the production team Wolf & Epic on albums by Bell Biv DeVoe, Ralph Tresvant, Military Cross Lyte and Military Cross Serch, among others Crazy Town
Crazy Town was formed by Mazur and Seth Binzer, who started collaborating in 1995 under the initial name of "The Brimstone Sluggers".
By early 1999, they were calling themselves Crazy Town, and the full band consisted of Mazur, Binzer, Rust Epique, James Bradley Junior., Doug Miller, DJ Department of Administration and Management, and Antonio Lorenzo "Trouble" Valli.
Their debut album, The Gift of Game, was released in November 1999, having been recorded earlier that year. lieutenant would become a major success after their single Butterfly reached Number.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100, sparking record sales in excess of 1.5 million.Their 2002 follow up album, Darkhorse, was a commercial failure in comparison, and the band broke up shortly after its release. Current
After Crazy Town announced they had reformed in 2007, Mazur stated that Crazy Town"s third album, tentatively titled Crazy Town Is Back, would be released right after his upcoming solo album, Strip to This in Spring 2008.
Neither album was released, though Crazy Town did release a third studio album, The Brimstone Sluggers, in 2015.
In 2011 Mazur formed the band Los Angeles EX, together with Crazy Town member Kraig Tyler and Antonella Barba. They released their first music video "Lipstick" on YouTube in July 2011. They are currently working on an European Parliament. Mazur is a record producer for various recording artists and also works as a music supervisor for television and film.
Personal life
He is of Jewish ancestry.