
Photo: Z. Mann Zilla · CC BY 3.0 · credits
Z. Mann Zilla
Person · male · United States · born 1976
American singer
Timeline
1970s
Biography
Biography
Z. Mann Zilla (born July 23, 1976) is an American rapper and artist.
Artistic career
Z. Mann Zilla depicted the adventures of the fictional character "Guy Friday", as part of the liner notes for the David Kane Quartet album The Life And Times of Guy Friday. The art style drew from a variety of sources, including Bill Keane's Family Circus and anime. He is also credited with creating animatics for the animated short Clicker Clatter. This is in addition to his many other artistic projects. Z. Mann participated in various art festivals in Buffalo, New York, including the annual Music Is Art Festival and Buffalo Infringement Festival.
Musical career
Z. Mann formed a band called "Z. Mann Zilla & The World's Largest Trio," which consisted of about eight members, including a banjo player and blindfolded guitarist. The band combined freestyle rapping, improvisational acts, and showmanship, but ultimately broke up in 2007 when ZMann moved out of his hometown of Buffalo.
Z. Mann also recorded a song with Amungus titled "Monochrome Monotony".
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 2 | 7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Z._Mann_Zilla.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8062866genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8062866seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z._Mann_Zillabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z._Mann_Zilla
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Z. Mann Zilla · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q8062866 · MusicBrainz: —
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