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Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha[1] (born January 12, 1970) is an American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He is best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Rage Against the Machine. [2][3] Through both Rage Against the Machine and his activism, de la Rocha promotes left-wing politics in opposition to ...
Jan 20, 2020 · For a band that have stood the test of time, sold more than 20 million records, and can fill a stadium in any city in the world, it’s hard to understand why de la Rocha continues to walk away every few years. The band haven’t recorded any new music since their middling covers album, Renegades, back in 2000. Since then, every time they get ...
Jul 19, 2022 · In 2008, De La Rocha formed a super-duo of sorts, One Day As a Lion, with Mrs Volta and Queens of the Stone Age drummer Jon Theodore; in addition to providing vocals, he went ahead and played keyboards on the band's sole EP release, because why not (via Billboard). Due to the absence of a guitarist or bassist in the band, those keys were tasked with filling up a whole lot of sonic space, but ...
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Dec 11, 2023 · De la Rocha once described his local town of Irvine, California, as “one of the most racist cities imaginable”. In the same year that Francis Fukuyama famously theorised how western liberal democracy had ended history, Morello and de la Rocha released their band’s eponymous debut album, a rebuke of American capitalism with its double standards and its zombified population.
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rap metal band formed in 1991 in Los Angeles, California. The band consisted of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk. They melded heavy metal and rap music, punk rock and funk ...
Jan 19, 2022 · Zack de la Rocha’s mother got a PhD in anthropology at the Irvine campus of the University of California; his father was an influential activist and visual artist in mid-’70s L.A., part of a ...
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Jan 12, 2021 · Rage are usually associated with their mix of hard rock riffs with rap vocals. But De La Rocha was actually inspired to start making music by attending punk rock shows in his formative years. He loved The Clash, and was present to see life-changing events like watching the likes of Bad Brains, Teen Idles, Minor Threat and The Dead Kennedy’s.
