Zack De La Rocha Acoustic

Zack De La Rocha Acoustic

Zack De La Rocha Acoustic. “Zacharias Manuel” (born January 12, 1970) is an American musician, poet, rapper, and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Against the Machine from 1991–2000, and after the band’s reunion in 2007 until their last show in 2011. He left Rage Against the Machine in October 2000, and embarked on a low-key solo career. With former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, de la Rocha also co-founded One Day as a Lion in 2008.

Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha was born in Long Beach, California on January 12, 1970, to a Mexican-American father, the artist Robert “Beto” de la Rocha (born 1937 in Wilmar, California), and a mother of German and Irish origin, Olivia Lorryne Carter (born 1941 in Los Angeles). His father played an integral part in his cultural upbringing. Beto was a muralist and a member of Los Four, the first Chicano art collective to be exhibited at a museum (LACMA, 1973). De la Rocha’s grandfather, Isaac de la Rocha Beltrán (born 1910 in Cananea, Mexico – died 1985 in Los Angeles),was a Sonorensan revolutionary who fought in the Mexican Revolution and worked as an agricultural labourer in the United States. Later, de la Rocha would see the hardships his grandfather endured reflected in the struggles of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

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