Rocky Wallace

To understand the essence of singer/songwriter Rocky Wallace, it is important to know that she was singing before she could talk. Her first childhood memories were surrounded by music and an intense longing to sing. This longing to sing created a void in her life at an early age.

Growing up in a suburb outside of Detroit, her mother Jackie tried to find her classes for singing, but no one wanted to coach a 4-year-old singer whom they perceived as too young. But the longing to sing would not go away. So her parents tried to distract her with the usual kid activities of piano lessons, gymnastics, dance, and even karate, but she quit them all within weeks of starting.

At school she was not a good student and even came close to being expelled, but she didn’t care. All she wanted to do was sing. Eventually her mom – realizing Rocky would only be happy if she was singing – convinced a local music school to give her voice lessons.

Everything changed after that. Singing was her medicine. She started behaving in school, her grades got better and music became her life.

“I started taking classical lessons in middle school and then gospel later on,” Rocky notes. “My influences span every genre and era of music. I have a deep fascination with singers and their techniques and study how these singers develop their unique vocal style.”

Who are these singers? Stevie Nicks, Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, Susan Tedeschi, Carrie Underwood, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. When you hear Rocky sing you hear these influences in her music and vocal style. Rocky aspires to sound like no one else.

“Someone once told me the best compliment they ever received was when a fan told them ‘you sound like you’. That’s something that always stuck with me in developing my own sound. There’s no one else I strive to sound like but me.”

Listen to Rocky and you will know that this is the truth.