Years active Since 2002 | Record label Takeover Records | |
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Origin Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Occupation(s) Record producer, record mixer, musician, songwriter Instruments Guitar, vocals, piano, bass, drums, recording studio Labels Orange Peal Records, Takeover Records Associated acts That Summer
The Berlin Project
Craig's Brother
Bear Cub
Askultura Genres Alternative rock, Pop rock, Folk music, Punk rock | ||
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Charles Rocha is a musician, songwriter and producer living in South Florida. He was born in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil and is of British/Scottish descent. Rocha currently plays lead guitar/backup vocals for Miami Ska/Punk/Rumba band Askultura. He is also chief engineer/producer at The Kitchen Studio in Oakland Park, FL. Rocha writes, records and releases his own songs under the moniker, That Summer. He has played in many notable bands throughout his life including Bear Cub, Craig's Brother and The Berlin Project. His first band was formed in Oakmont, Pennsylvania in his mother's basement. They were called My Life Tragic.
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Musical career
When Rocha was 18 he left his high school band and joined The Berlin Project for 8 weeks of summer touring. This would be his first venture into the music industry. The band toured through the mid west and east coast including numerous dates on the Warped Tour. Some of the bands The Berlin Project shared the stage with that summer were Punchline, NOFX, No Use For A Name, Lagwagon, Bad Religion, N.E.R.D, The Circle Jerks, New Found Glory, Flogging Molly, Good Charlotte, MXPX, Homegrown, The Starting Line and Something Corporate.
The Berlin Project toured heavily through 2004. Rocha got his first taste of a professional recording studio at Mr. Smalls Funhouse in December 2002 when The Berlin Project started pre-production for their final full length, The Things We Say. The album was completed in the Spring of 2003 at Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh, and was produced by Billy Rossi (Anti-Flag, Punchline). Rocha left the band in the midst of a co-headlining tour with The Matches, following an injury to his foot on stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Later that year, Rocha received a call from friend Benjamin Harper, lead guitarist for Yellowcard, and was asked to join Craig's Brother (Tooth and Nail, Takeover Records) on rhythm guitar/vocals for an upcoming tour supporting Yellowcard, The Starting Line and The Matches. The tour would last two and half weeks going through the northeast US and Canada. This would be Rocha's last involvement in music on a professional level for many years.
In 2009, after a long period of no communication between the two, John Garrighan, founding member of The Berlin Project, invited Rocha to reunite The Berlin Project. The two would play a couple of shows in 2009 and 2010 with longtime friends of the band, Paul Menotiades and Cory Muro, opening for The Ataris and The Composure. John Garrighan died of a drug overdose shortly after these reunion shows, and The Hearth EP Vol. 1 by That Summer was dedicated to his memory. Rocha cites John as the man "who opened my eyes to the world of rock n roll".
Rocha began learning to record on his own using a 4 track recorder, and later a laptop computer in California while living in Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe. His love for recording songs and producing records would really take hold when he started Bear Cub with songwriter friend Jesse Hall in 2010. Jesse had almost finished recording Bear Cub's first record with his father, Buddy Hall, in his basement studio in Pittsburgh, PA. Rocha joined the two on the last recording of that album, which would become the first track on the band's first release, "Hey, Let's Get Out Of Here".
In 2010, Bear Cub would play sold out shows in Pittsburgh, quickly selling thousands of copies of their first two albums, S/T and Always Be Down. Eventually, the band decided to move to Nashville. Moving the band would prove to be a bad judgement as Bear Cub was only able to flourish for a small amount of time before eventually burning out and disbanding. Rocha left Bear Cub in the summer of 2011, during which time the band was writing and recording their third album, Good Morning, Every Morning.
After leaving Nashville, Rocha moved to Florida to work for his grandfather and complete his bachelor's degree in English and Political Science. At this time Rocha used the skills he had learned from Buddy Hall at Beacon Hill Recording Studio in Pittsburgh and began recording his own songs from his bedroom. This would evolve into That Summer. Brad Evanovich, also formerly of The Berlin Project, gave Rocha the push and support he needed to help record and release his songs. The two would get together in Florida and finish writing the songs that would become The Hearth EP Vol. 1. The two recorded the music for the album between Brad and Rocha's homes in Florida, and eventually finished the vocals for the album with Roger Lima (Less Than Jake, Masked Intruder, Rehasher) at The Moathouse Recording Studio in Gainesville, FL. That Summer played a sold out Record Release Show in Pittsburgh, PA at Club Cafe on March 13, 2013. Rocha would promote the record at SXSW later that month and the two aging punks would play That Summer songs on acoustic guitars in bars and gin joints across South Florida through the rest of the year.
At the same time Rocha continued developing his ear in the recording studio working with local artists in South Florida and building the instruments and tools that would become The Kitchen Recording Studio in Oakland Park, FL which is where Rocha is currently Chief Engineer/Producer.
Rocha is currently working with a multitude of artists in South Florida covering a broad range of genres from Blues to R&B, and Punk Rock to Rap. He has recently joined Askultura as lead guitarist/backup vocalist.