Blake DiModica as Robin Zander:

Blake grew up and has spent his life in the rolling hills of Northern California. From the moment he was born it didn’t take long for his God given gift of music to rise up and shake the windows. By age 5 he started playing drums, which at the time consisted of 2 snare drums and 2 metal knitting needles as drumsticks. By the time he was 15 Blake had added trumpet, piano, bass, and guitar to his list of
instruments, including of course, vocals. He wasn’t quite sure at this point which musical path he would follow until that fateful day he saw Cheap Trick on Don Kushner’s Rock Concert. From then on it was all Zander influenced front man! His high school original rock band “Interface” played just as many Cheap Trick songs as originals including the entire Live at Budokan album.
Original and cover bands soon followed over the years including 2 years of traveling the Western US with a Top-40 band playing 4 to 6 nights a week. Blake has also written well over 100 songs in his songwriting lifetime which began in 1976 with a song called “Girl” and continues to this day. His original band “Panic” got the lead track on the Solano (county) Pulse CD (Feedback – 2004) and he also performed a song on Dreamland Discs Takin’ A Ride – A Tribute to Enuff Z’Nuff CD (Your Hearts No Good – 2004). After a lengthy live preforming break, Blake is more than excited to come full circle in Cheap Trip.