Career
During the early 1980s, Rocca formed, played with, wrote for, produced and managed his first musical band, Freeez. After his first self-funded and self-released effort, "Keep in Touch", a Number. 49 hit in the United Kingdom Chart, his next effort, "Southern Freeez" was a chart success in various other countries in Europe, reaching Number.
8 in the United Kingdom Chart.
During 1983, one of the first records to use digital sampling, "IOU", featured Rocca"s falsetto voice and became one of the major dance successes of the 1980s electro music style. lieutenant scored number one in dance charts in Europe and the United States Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, and had popular music chart success across the world spending three weeks at number 2 in the United Kingdom. As a solo artist, Rocca scored number one again, this time with "I Want lieutenant To Be Real", on the United States Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during 1984. Rocca retired from the music business during 1993.
His last recording, using the pseudonym Midi Rain, reached Number.
1 on the Billboard United States Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with Shine. In 2012, Rocca uploaded a new ambient-style album called Just Be.
