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Buzz Interviews Sasha Kerbel

Neighborhood West LA

I discovered my passion for acting very early, when I was about four years old, and since then I made sure that I performed literally at every corner, singing songs and reciting poems. Or just clowning. I loved to make people laugh. My parents were sure that I'd become eventually a professional clown. Then, in middle and high school, I constantly performed in school plays. But then, at the age of 18, curiosity and a thirst for adventures brought me to television news, where I first became a reporter, and later one of the anchors. From TV news I decided…

Buzz Interviews Michael Riady of Tentera Coffee Roasters

Neighborhood Downtown LA

It was a series of events over a long period of time for me to conclude I wanted to go into coffee. I was a former CEO and Vice Chairman of South East Asia's largest shopping mall owner and analyzed a lot of tenants/retailers' businesses during my 14 years tenure. I learned a lot about coffee just being in the mall business. Secondly, my distant cousin back in college pitched me the idea to open a coffee shop on our campus in 2001 but never made it because he passed away inside the plane crash WTC Tower 2 during 9/11.…

Buzz Interviews Hartmann

Neighborhood The Valley

I grew up as a missionary kid in the country of Albania. My parents moved our family over there shortly after communism fell, in 1993. I pretty much lived solely there until I graduated high school in 2005. I loved every minute of it and it really shaped my view of how music is perceived around the world and much a song can cross all kinds of barriers. It doesn't matter what race, creed, or background you come from, people can unite around good music and that's what drove me to pursue songwriting and the performance arts. I studied music…

Buzz Interviews Drayton Walker

Neighborhood Hollywood

Well, it started when I was living in Hawaii with my family. At the time, my mom and dad were both in the military and my mom was deployed to Afghanistan for a year. During that time period, I was in the car when I heard a commercial on the radio about being an actor. That piqued my interest, so I told my dad. He said to remember that for when my mom came back. Time goes by and she came back, and I heard the same commercial. “Calling all actors!” I told my dad again and he took me…

Buzz Interviews Norton Leufven

I starting acting at the age of 7, I was scouted by Heidi Klum's production team for Seriously Funny Kids at an open call at the school I attended at the time. Acting was never a thought until that day. After the call back and being on the set of lifetime TV I was really intrigued by the industry and decided to take acting classes. I acquired my firs agent at 8 years old and booked my first National Commercial and Film. Continue Reading Meet Norton Leufven

Buzz Interviews Matt Macedo of Macedo Productions

Neighborhood The Valley

This journey started long before I consciously knew I was on it. Between the ages of 3 and 6, my step brother at the time would film home videos for his high school class. Some of these included short films of me dressed up as a ghost, fading from one side of the door to the other, and dancing to Britney Spears “Oops I did it again” during the end credits. Around the age of 12, I began writing short stories on my families first laptop computer. Microsoft Word was my go-to. Those written stories turned into scripts. I would…

Buzz Interviews Hunter Perrin

Neighborhood Hollywood

I'm a musician. My wife and I have 2 small children (ages 3 and 1) and I've been playing music for them to go to sleep. Since Covid-19, I've been recording Quarantine Lullabies (solo instrumental guitar pieces) and posting them online to help other parents get their kids to relax. Continue Reading Meet Hunter Perrin

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Buzz Interviews Chrissy Newton & Marie Nicola of Alt.Pop.Repeat

Neighborhood Downtown LA

Chrissy: Almost a year ago, Marie and I started on a journey together to create a podcast concept that has never been done before. Ever! (trust me, we were shocked too). On Alt.Pop.Repeat we dive deep into how counterculture, sub and alternative cultures “connect” (or what we like to call a “sync”) together to influence current pop culture. Our podcast baby has developed and evolved overtime and it's something Marie and I are really proud to call our own. It's a labor of love and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Marie: We started like most great projects begin……

Buzz Interviews Sullivan Marsters

Neighborhood East LA

I picked up a guitar lying around my house at age 12 and started writing shortly thereafter. I was living in a rural environment, (and by rural I mean having to traverse a valley, evade bulls and hop fences to make it to the school bus) so the dive into music was spurred from boredom and a lack of external stimulus. The passion grew rapidly. By the end of middle school I had turned my bedroom into a recording studio. There were 4 guitars, a bass, a Rhodes piano, an organ, and several mics & stands laying about (there may…

Buzz Interviews Yana Tammah of SSTAGIONI

Neighborhood Hollywood

It all started when I first talked to my mother about my future career. Originally, she wanted me to become a lawyer because it was a popular job back in the day, but my mind and my soul told me otherwise, I wanted to become a beauty expert. Soon after, I opened a few salons of my own in Russia and even worked in television and film industry, but I didn’t stop just there, I dreamt bigger, I wanted to work with Hollywood celebrities. After leaving everything behind, I finally moved to Los Angeles and in 2017, I opened my…