See Dendura on a Reality TV Show December 22, 2006

Dendura, the hot metal/progressive/hard rock band from Grand Rapids and Detroit, will be featured on an upcoming episode of "I Too Want to be a Star", the new reality TV show airing in Detroit beginning in January on the new MYTV20 station on Channel 20, formerly Detroit’s WB 20. The show will capture the band’s live performance at TNTs in Clinton Township on Friday, December 22.

Twelve contestants for the show were literally chosen off the street and will compete for a chance to host their own upcoming show by completing various challenges and hosting events around town. For the Dendura episode, contestants will go behind-the-scenes to interview the band before the show, MC the event, introduce the bands and be the crowd warmer with the microphone. Will the contestants pull off a savvy interview while the camera is rolling? Can they get it together in front of a crowd? And can they warm up a beer-drinking crowd of metalheads in the land of long hair and leather jackets?

In addition to playing numerous shows, Dendura is causing a buzz in Egypt, Brazil, The Netherlands, Germany and Italy with New Life, their current release. Vocalist Aziza Poggi, who is Egyptian and Lebanese, explains that the album paints a moody, powerful and seductive painting with elements of Egyptian/Middle Eastern music the more progressive side of metal/hard rock.

Dendura is also working on a rock version of the theme song for a new series for a major, national cable TV network and has contributed songs to several films including "InZer0", the science-fiction series filmed in Detroit, and "Broken", a feature film directed by Derek Justice of Detroit and David Deleon who lives in Ohio. Aziza also stars in "Broken" as a newspaper editor whose emotionally- and physically-abused state leads her to drug addiction. The film, which is currently traveling to festivals throughout the USA, also stars Dave Gries who plays her love interest and Steve Hopton, the former vocalist of Riot In Progress, who plays her abusive boyfriend.

Dendura takes the stage at TNTs located at 35101 Harper in Clinton Township. See them with Koyl, Somnia, Totem Soul and Grand Circus. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/denduraband, www.dendura.com or email [email protected].

Dendura is Steve Wethy of Grand Rapids (Guitar/backup vocals), Justin Mosteller of Grand Rapids (Drums), Paul Stein of Kalamazoo (Guitar), Aziza Poggi of Grand Rapids/Detroit (Vocals, keyboards) and Mike Fatzinger of Kalamazoo (Bass, Kalamazoo).

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/denduraband