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Charles Rocha

musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ27063664 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Rocha is an American musician, songwriter and producer living in Los Angeles, California, United States. He was born in Campinas, Brazil, and is of British/Scottish descent. Rocha played lead guitar/backup vocals for the Miami ska/punk/rumba band Askultura. He was also chief engineer/producer for The Kitchen Studio in Oakland Park, Florida. Rocha writes, records and releases his own songs under the moniker That Summer. That Summer produced and released its first full-length album, Acoustic Hippie Punk, totally DIY, in December 2017. 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.

Musical career

When Rocha was 18, he left his high school band and joined The Berlin Project for eight weeks of summer touring.

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“Charles Rocha” enters the record as musical artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charles, Rocha and musical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charles, Rocha and musical.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27063664. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Rocha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.