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Arrica Rose
12+ albums
kgrlfolk rockpopindiefemale vocalists
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Frank Sinatra’s "New York, New York" 45 was the first record Arrica Rose stole from her parents at the age of 4. Later she found out her great uncle Lou Monte best known for his Italian-themed novelty records was one of the first artists signed by Sinatra to Reprise Records long ago. Growing up in a New York household transplanted to the San Fernando Valley, Rose's father was a working actor that mostly played gangsters that met tragic ends (notoriously in The Godfather) and her mother was an educator and a writer in her spare time. At 15 Rose gave up on her childhood piano lessons and bought her first electric guitar. She learned the instrument by playing in Uxby an all girl punk-rock trio that never recorded a single note but played frequently at small Los Angeles area venues like The Smell and Cobalt Cafe with bands such as Commander Venus, Still Life, and Jimmy Eat World. After high school, Arrica Rose took a bit of a hiatus from music and attended USC film school. Soon she found hereslf taking less film-production courses and more sound design classes as well as scoring short films. She also began releasing her lo-fi home recordings on her own label, pOprOck records. Upon graduating from college, putting together her backing The ...'s (The Dot Dot Dots) promptly ensued. Arrica Rose & the ...'s debut full-length People Like Us was co-produced by Rose and Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney) at Wavelab in Tucson AZ. The band traveled out to the
