Zeke is a name which is short for Ezekiel. It means "God is my strength" in Hebrew.

Zeke may also refer to:

People[link]

• Zeke Bella (born 1930), American baseball player
• Zeke Bonura (1908–1987), American baseball player
• Zeke Bratkowski (born 1931), American football player
• Zeke Clements (1911–1994), American country musician
• Zeke Dombrowski (born 1986), American soccer player
• Zeke Jones (born 1966), American wrestler
• Zeke Manners (1911–2000), American country musician
• Zeke Manyika (born 1955), Zimbabwean-born British musician
• Zeke Meyer (1892–1962), American racecar driver
• Zeke Moore (born 1943), American football player
• Zeke Moreno (born 1978), American football player
• Zeke Mowatt (born 1961), American football player
• Zeke Sanborn (1899–1991), American rower
• Zeke Smith (born 1936), American football player
• Zeke Steggall (born 1971), Australian snowboarder
• Zeke Wilson (1869–1928), American baseball player
• Zeke Wissinger (1902–1963), American football player
• Zeke Wrigley (1874–1952), American baseball player
• Zeke Zarchy (1915–2009), American trumpet player
• Zeke Zawoluk (1930–2007), American basketball player
• Zeke Zekley (1915–2005), American cartoonist
• Zeke Zettner (1948–1973), American musician
• Isiah Thomas (born 1961), American basketball player and coach, nicknamed Zeke

Fiction[link]

• Big Zeke, the current WWE Intercontinental Champion

Film

• Zeke Baylor, fictional character in the High School Musical films
• Zeke Tyler, fictional character in the 1998 film The Faculty
• Zeke, portrayed by Bert Lahr, the farm worker who became the Lion in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
• Zeke, fictional character in the 2002 film Ice Age

Other

• The Big Bad Wolf in Disney comics
• Zeke Asakura, fictional character in the anime and manga series Shaman King
• Zeke Brenner, fictional character in the comics strip Doonesbury
• Zeke Kinski, fictional character on the Australian television series Neighbours
• Zeke, fictional character in the Left Behind novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
• Zeke, fictional character in the anime series Zoids
• Zeke, nickname of the fictional character Tom on the television series Lost

Other uses[link]

• Tropical Storm Zeke (disambiguation)
• Zeke, Allied code name for the Japanese A6M Zero fighter
• Zeke (band), American hardcore punk band from Tacoma, WA
• Zeke, Burkina Faso
• Zero Kinetic Energy spectroscopy, a form of high resolution photoelectron spectroscopy

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DJ Qbert
At the Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon, France, May 2006
Background information
Birth name	Richard Quitevis
Born	(1969-10-07) October 7, 1969 (age 42) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Disc jockey
Website	http://www.djqbert.com

Richard Quitevis (born October 7, 1969) known by his stage name DJ Qbert or Qbert, is a Filipino-American Turntablist and composer.

Early life[link]

Growing up in San Francisco's Excelsior District on Moscow Street, he graduated from Luther Burbank Middle School and in 1987 from Balboa High School.^[1][2] Qbert started playing with records at the age of 15, although he got his first Fisher-Price turntable as a toddler. He was influenced by the street performers and graffiti artists of the local hip hop community in the mid 1980s. It was at Balboa's school cafeteria that he went up against Mix Master Mike. The two are good friends.^[3]

Career[link]

Qbert started his musical career in a group called FM20 with Mix Master Mike and DJ Apollo in 1990. In New York when playing a show, Crazy Legs saw them and invited them to join the Rock Steady Crew. They accepted the offer to join the crew. Going by the name Rock Steady DJs they then proceeded to take the 1992 Disco Mix Club World DJ Championships (DMC) world title.^[4] Qbert was also one of the founding members of the band Invisibl Skratch Piklz. Although there were other turntablist crews before the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the Skratch Piklz were the first to apply the band concept to turntablism, layering drums, basslines, and scratch solos on top of each other.

QBert, along with other Skratch Piklz, created a series of videos entitled Turntable TV. Now out of print, the first 5 episodes were released on VHS and contained demonstrations, showcases, skits, and other DJ related content.

QBert's solo efforts include 1994's Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik, and 1998's Wave Twisters. The latter album was created mainly with samplers and beat machines versus the turntable, and later turned into an animated feature of the same title. Wave Twisters (2001) the movie was somewhat unusual in that the animators and digital artists had to invent images and movements to the pre-recorded music, as opposed to the other way around (although not unprecedented; Disney's Fantasia was made the same way).

More recently he has worked with Vestax to develop the QFO, an all-in-one scratching instrument. The QFO combines a turntable with a mixer's crossfader.[1] In 2006 he introduced the QBert turntable cartridge, a model put out by Ortofon.[2]

Performing at a gig in Berlin, February 2008

In 2009, Qbert launched the Qbert Skratch University, an online school and community for DJ's.

Personal life[link]

In a 2011 interview with the website WeBeVegan.org, Qbert stated that he is a vegan.^[5]

Media appearances[link]

His music was also featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground. He has also appeared himself in DJ Hero 2.

Awards and credentials[link]

• America's Best DJ 2010
• DMC USA Champion 1991 (Solo)
• DMC World Champion 1992 - Rock Steady DJs (Qbert, Mixmaster Mike & Apollo)
• DMC World Champion 1993 - Dreamteam (Qbert & Mixmaster Mike)
• DMC World Champion 1994 - Dreamteam (Qbert & Mixmaster Mike) ***
• DMC Judge 2012 (what you heard?)
• DMC DJ Hall of Fame (along with Mix Master Mike)
• Featured in Hang the DJ by Marco & Mauro La Villa
  • Cannes Film Festival, France
• Appears in the documentary film Modulations
  • Sundance Festival, Utah
• Appears in the documentary Scratch
  • Sundance Festival, Utah
• Appears in his own animated/live action movie "Wave Twisters

See also[link]

• Filipino hip hop

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: DJ Q-bert

• Djqbert.com
• ThudRumble.com
• QbertSkratchUniversity.com
• Q-bert on IMDb
• Full Discography
• Video of Q-Bert Live Set in UK

Interviews[link]

• Interview with DJ Times, 2001
• The Career Cookbook Interview with Qbert
• Radio Feature The Some Assembly Required Interview with DJ Qbert (2008).
• HHC Digital interview about his DMC legacy
• Conspiracy Worldwide Radio October 2010 Uncensored Interview
• Interview with We Be Vegan