Steve Roach (musician)
American composer and musician
Steve Roach (born February 16, 1955) is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space. His work has been influential in the trance and new-age genres.
Roach has received two Grammy Award nominations for New Age Album of the Year: His 2017 album Spiral Revelation for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards., and 2018's Molecules of Motion for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. His double album, Dreamtime Return (1988), was listed in 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.
Biography
Roach was born a February 16, 1955 in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. He is an only child. He developed a passion for Motocross racing in the early 1970s, experiences from which he incorporated into his composing and performing later on. "You have to be fully awake and present ... All of those things relate right over to what would become my path in music. You're completely in; you're inside of it, your life depends on it.
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