photos and biography

John lived in Canada all his life coming to Montreal the greatest city in Canada from Egypt with his family when he was a baby. He started to play guitar when he was about 15 years old. He got more serious about his guitar playing when he was about 20. His greatest guitarist influence was by the late Randy Rhoads amazing and unique lead guitar player of Ozzy Osbourne. Joining his two brothers, Frank And Peter, the Tahan brothers formed a fisrt group called "The Teasers" which also included our fabulous base player little cousing Gilbert Rostand, in the early 80s playing pop cover material, Elvis and The Beatles music along with some original songs. In the mid 80's they emerged with a more hard and heavy rock sound forming the group called "TZAR". John was the ever so versatile and hot guitar player writing all the lead material on the album, John was also doing vocals, Guy Morin was named the (animal) because of his hard hitting style on the drums. The group TZAR thanks to also his ex manager Marc Sigouin toured extensively in Canada and the U.S. playing in concert halls and famous metal clubs. They came out with their debut album called " Players Of The Game" in the mid 80's that still selling on the internet today on sites like Ebay and CD Baby also available on my site. they also have a website called Tzarrockmetal.com. In the early 90's the Tahan brothers decided to call it quits. They each went their own seperate ways persuing different endeveours. Today John has a small computer shop in Montreal offering a complete computer service from selling computers, laptops, to repairing , servicing commercial clients and their computer network needs. Also a web designer and internet marketer. He is presently a single father of a lovely 4 year old daughter named Mary-Christine Tahan which he cares for on a joint custody agreement. His true passion his music, he has been also busy in the past five years writing great pop rock songs for the world to enjoy.

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My daughter and I Mary-Christine Tahan october 2009, 4 years old.

The Heavy Metal Group Tzar in concert in Hull, Quebec, Canada
From left to right : John Tahan, Peter Tahan, Frank Tahan

Another rock concert for Tzar somewhere in Canada
From left to right : John Tahan, Frank Tahan, Peter Tahan

A special memory for my dear mother who passed away on november 1st 2003 from the terrible disease of primary
pulmonary hypertention and also my dear friend from way back when I was a child Phil Champagne who passed away
in the summer of 2007 from heart failure. God bless you , I miss you both dearly. Also a special memory for
a friend and accomplished musician who I had an oppotunity to jam with, Daniel Poirier who also passed away in 2008 of cancer.