Artist Information Biography Are you ready to be introduced to an intricately spicy new groove? With the soul purpose of bringing good music to planet Earth, Christina LaRocca & Heavy Weather are blasting through the New York City music scene like an asteroid entering the atmosphere since 2006. To explain it in words isn’t easy, but you can imagine their sound as something like Amy Winehouse stuffed inside Muddy Water’s guitar while they jam out to Bob Marley and Joss Stone tunes. Their debut album “Miles of Mud” has been comfortably settling in the ears of listeners all around the globe since October 2008.  Anyone that hears the album is impressed and loves the fact that they have genuine musical talent, which can be heard through their chord choices, soulful lyrics & vocals and a rhythm section that the harshest of critics can get down to. Lead by soulful vocals of Brooklyn native Christina LaRocca, Heavy Weather has grown and become something that can’t easily be compared to anything happening today. She is intelligent, sexy, and has a voice like no other. Her real sense of life is soothed by dreamy lyrics, soulful melodies, and enchanting harmonies that she sings with fellow composer and percussionist Dorian Lake. Heavy Weather’s guitar player, Carl Raymond Gallagher III, was born on the Mississippi Delta among the souls of some of the greatest blues players of our time and rings out with every note he plays. Christina LaRocca & Heavy Weather have performed at the Wave Gathering Festival in Asbury Park, NJ (‘08), Milenium Music Conference (‘07 , ’08, ’09 {headliners}) in Harrisburg, PA and Rock the Harbor in Staten Island NYC (‘08). Christina was involved with CMJ ’08 with a project that she co-produces called “From the Penthouse: The Artist Loft Series” at Tainted Blue Studios in Times Square. They have also graces the stages of NYC class joints like Crash Mansion, Rockwood Music Hall, Southpaw, & The Bitter End just to name a few and have toured in New England, California, and London. On their journey they have encountered other amazing artists to share the stage with such as Ingrid Michaelson, Melody Gardot, ZOX, Bess Rogers, and David Peel & the Yoko Ono Band. Heavy Weather recently won IAR’s Next Level Competition where they took home a $1,000 gift certificate to Discmakers and free recording time with Grammy winning Engineer, Dan Grigsby and Mario Salvati. Miss LaRocca is proud to say she is the first woman to ever win this competition. They also received the 2007 Excellence in Performing Arts Grant for $1000 from COAHSI, an arts council in their homebase Staten Island. This is where they also hold a monthly residency at Martini Red, the hottest music venue on the island. They have a featured track, "Bird of Prey", on Groovetonics Vol. 1 released by Hot Sauce Records and "Love Me or Leave Me" was nominated best R&B/Soul song from Toronto Exclusive Magazine. Joining the International Emergenza Battle of the bands, they made it to the NYC finals after coming in first several times in the Brooklyn chapter. Heavy Weather has also been involved with several charitable and cultural events including the "Smile" Campaign at Hunter College, the Staten Island Club for the Deaf, and the Staten Island Irish Organization. Instrumentation Christina "L Rock the Party" LaRocca- vocals, acoustic guitar Carl Raymond Gallagher III- lead guitar Danny Gallagher- bass Dr. Michael B Sutton- drums Jackson- Keys Dorian Lake- vocals, djembe, bongos, congos, tambourine, COWBELL, claves, vibra-slap (and lots of other random percussion making instruments) If your lucky: Rob Morisi- Trumpet Chris Winn- Trombone Chris Cipollo- Tenor Sax For bookings Contact Christina at LRockthePartyBooking@gmail.com Discography "Miles of Mud", 2008 Funk da IV Chord Miles of Mud Oranges Think About It Untouchable Sky Full of Rockets Can’t Find My Way Home Love Me or Leave Me Sneaky Like a Fox Oh Yeah! Bird of Prey Other: -Females on Fire Vol. 3 Compilation CD "Miles of Mud" -Groovetonics Vol. 1- Promotion CD Released by Hot Sauce Records; "Bird of Prey" Links http://www.HeavyWeatherMusic.com or www.myspace.com/TheHeavyWeatherBand Myspace Heavy Weather Wesbite Facebook Reverbnation