Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha is the vocalist for Rage Against the Machine. He's also the guy came up with th name. Zack was born in Long Beach, CA in 1970.
His father Beto de la Rocha and his mother (name?) separated when Zack was about 1 years old. Zack's father was into a political band called "Los Four" which depicted pictures of the Mexican farmers. His dad took the BIBLE very seriously, and suffered a nervous breakdown in 1983 because he read a passage in the BIBLE saying something about "not making bad images, or engraved image" He went on and told Zack to tear up all his paintings that Zack made, that he liked a lot. To me, Zack was treated Horribly when he visited his father, his father made him sit in a room with curtains closed, and the door locked, and do nothing. He would ONLY eat on Fridays, and then wouldn't eat until he went back to his mom's house, which was around Monday. After that, Zack pretty much said "screw you" and he went on living permanently with his mother in Irvine CA, which is a town very populated by white people. It was a shock for Zack, seeing his fellow culture men only working, and hardly making a living.
Zack then made a early band called "Inside Out". They released one record, then broke up. After that, Rage Against the Machine was just getting started... Since then, with Rage Against the Machine, Zack expressed his true anger, with thier first CD. "Rage Against the Machine" was promptly Zack's best CD lyrical wise, very angry in all his songs, and lot's of yelling and screaming, trying to get his point across to the people. Their Second CD "Evil Empire" was more relaxed Zack, still angry and pissed, just didn't express as good as he did in his first CD, but his point still got across. Their Third CD "Battle of Los Angles" was Zack's more creative lyrics, with the less yelling and screaming, but better flow with the music (testify, mic check). With BOLA, the band seemed to be taking a different direction, musically wise. Their Fourth CD "Renegades of Funk" was all cover tracks. Each band member took their favorite songs, and did a remake of them, it's acutely a very good CD, and it just shows that rock
instruments can make Rap like tones, and again, Zack's flow with the Beat was truly shown in this CD.