Biographie
Steve Zaragoza (born June 9, 1982) is an American online personality, singer/songwriter, musician, inventor of the dance move known as the Endless 2-Step, and web series host, notable for his work on the current events & news series, SourceFed. Zaragoza became a host on the series in 2012. The following year, Zaragoza became a host on its spin-off channel, SourceFedNERD. On his personal YouTube channel Zaragoza frequently performs a unique style of comedy, often crossing between or combining Dark, Deadpan, Surreal, Character, and/or Sketch Comedy in a non-sequitur fashion. In short, he is an Online personality who became a part of the SourceFed team as a web series host in 2012, and later becoming a host on their spin-off channel SourceFedNERD in 2013.
Born on June 9, 1982 in Oxnard, California, he is a Mexican-American who has grown up with n older brother named Frank. Before fame, He worked in the sound department for the film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and appeared in an episode of 1000 Ways to Die in 2011. Zaragoza's first appearance was in 2008 for a music video by Buckcherry titled "Too Drunk...". Prior to SourceFed, Zaragoza worked as a sound designer at Sony.
Making his first appearance on March 1, 2012, Zaragoza joined SourceFed early on as a recurring host, before developing into a full-time co-host. Zaragoza would become ingrained with the SF community, appearing at live meetups and being interviewed by online publications. In February 2013, Zaragoza, along with Philip DeFranco & his SourceFed co-hosts at the time, were awarded the Audience Choice Streamy Award.
In May, Zaragoza became a co-host on the spin-off channel, SourceFedNERD. In August 2013, Zaragoza joined boss Philip DeFranco and co-host Meg Turney in the meetup event, "DeFranco Loves Dat AZ". Zaragoza would appear at VidCon 2014, as well.
In September 2014, Zaragoza co-hosted a video with Lee Newton, focusing on charities refusing donations from Reddit following the leaks of celebrities' nude photographs, which Reddit commonly referred to as "The Fappening." According to StatSheep, the SourceFed channel lost over 20,000 subscribers due to the video, which were quickly recovered. Days later, Zaragoza along with the rest of the SourceFed crew were awarded the Streamy for Best News & Current Events series.
Aside from hosting series for Phil DeFranco Networks & Merchandise, Zaragoza has frequently collaborated with YouTube personality Dane Boedigheimer. Zaragoza has been a recurring guest voice actor on Boedigheimer's The Annoying Orange. He has provided his voice for the popular Annoying Orange series and was the lead role on The Misfortune of Being Ned. Zaragoza also appeared as the lead role on The Misfortune of Being Ned, and on the pilot episode of Orange spin-off, The Marshmallow Show. PBS Newshour would publish an article commenting on Zaragoza's reception of Taco Bell's breakfast waffle taco.
In 2014, Zaragoza would continue his presence outside of SourceFed, appearing in SoulPancake's The FlipSide series. Zaragoza was also announced to play the role of Iggy DeLacey on the Pemberley Digital and PBS Digital Studios collaborative series Frankenstein MD. The series is produced by Bernie Su who has won Emmy Awards for his previous webseries projects, The Lizzie Bennet Diariesand Emma Approved.[19] Zaragoza's character is based on the Igor character. Due to his role on Frankenstein, MD, Zaragoza appeared at LeakyCon 2014, with co-actress Anna Lore. Frankenstein, MD is an online video adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and is shot at YouTube Space LA.
Zaragoza would also be hired as the MC for the NMR! Live event. In 2015, Zaragoza confirmed he would releasing an album titled 'Animals'. It would feature songs written by various other web personalities, including Chelsea Dunaway and Andy Kaufman's Ghost.
