The Mangfather Bob Katz
Brooklyn, New York, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | SELF
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Here's my television debut in this Youtube video. It's for The Real Radio TV Show Episode 1. The show is put on by some of the guys from the band Twisted Sister and A.J. Pero, the drummer from Twisted Sister is one of the hosts. You can see me at the 13:20 mark and also at the 15:49 mark where I have an extended scene with Jose Hernandez Jr., an actor who has been featured in Oz, Men In Black, and many other TV shows and movies. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4b2hr_yKjY&feature=player_embedded
Bob Katz - The Real Radio TV Show Episode 1
Are southpaws wired differently? Consider the following: Julius Ceasar, Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Lenny Bruce, Lewis Carroll, Cole Porter, both Everly Brothers, Barack Obama, Paul and Ringo, Ben Franklin, Harpo Marx, Babe Ruth, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland…oh, don’t forget Michelangelo and Leonardo. All left-handers.
Bob Katz is a left hander, too, and he’s wired in a different and wonderful way. If you could swirl the clever lyricism of Cole with the sly cherubic humor of Harpo, and add a shmear of Judy’s showbiz pizzazz, you’d have a concoction, a left-handed one, akin to Bob.
He blends his New York City street smarts with the sensitivity of a committed social healer, and the stories he tells expand outward from the streets of Queens to encompass your life, and mine, dear listener.
He can make you laugh and care at the same time. The fellow is full of surprises, and he’s got a set of pipes that can handle an aria. (On this debut disc, he does just that.)
So lend an ear, a tear, and a funnybone too, to a true southpaw, a creature who inhabits his own unique species, Bob Katz.
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Here's a link to my show on Finnish National Television MTV3 - Finnish National Television MTV3
"Bob Katz makes people smile; he makes them feel good. Bob Katz is really talented and really funny. Excellent. Great job! Really entertaining and very different. He was the most entertaining act of the night."
Mark "The Animal" Mendoza, Twisted Sister -
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Albums:
Album Title: Caught in a Butt Sandwich
Artist: The Mangfather Bob Katz
Released: September, 2016
Album Title: When Good Mangos Go Bad
Artist: Bob Katz
Released: 2010
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Bob Katz (“You never know what he’ll do next”) — known for his genre-bending shows, raucous lyrics, and love of a certain tropical fruit — surprises again with his new self-produced alt-hip-hop album CAUGHT IN A BUTT SANDWICH, complete with his new identity: THE MANGFATHER BOB KATZ. Released in September 2016, the album made the list of AJ.MP3’s Top Albums of 2016 at A.J. Radio on The WIRE (wire.wit.edu Wentworth Internet Radio + Entertainment). Video for the title track of CAUGHT IN A BUTT SANDWICH has already become a viral sensation and made The Best Video list (New Lahore Videos), and the album is already being featured and played on major radio stations all over the world including BCB 106.6FM, WFCS, WPKN, WESU, WFMU, WMPG, WNCM, WPCR, WCDB, WRHO, WTUL (Top New Album), KALX, KJAG RADIO, KUNM, REDMP3, THE SOCC (Song of the Day), Celtica Radio, Songshooter.com (Song of the Day), Vancouver Co-op Radio, and WIRE, and getting great reviews on music magazines such as OrcaSound (http://www.orcasound.com/2017/01/18/the-mangfather-bob-katz-caught-in-a-butt-sandwich/), The Modern Folk Music of America (http://www.themodernfolk.net/2017/01/bob-katz-caught-in-butt-sandwich.htm), and Makin’ It Magazine.
Called “The Folk Punk Woody Allen," Bob introduced a startling new voice with his award-winning debut album When Good Mangos Go Bad. Since then, he's created and produced an extended run of the one-man Off-Broadway musical theater show Quasimango, the Lunchbox of Notre Dame at NYC’s Dixon Place and The Theater at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Radio and TV include regular appearances on The Real Radio Show (with members of Twisted Sister) and Finnish National Television MTV3. Bob is Artistic Director/Co-Host of Christopher Street Coffee House, a monthly mash-up of song, spoken word, hip-hop, and free-form whatever with guests ranging from Dar Williams to Tim Fite.
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