Ralph Rolle says drums have been his passion since he was a kid growing up in the Bronx.
“I just gravitated to the instrument and kind of taught myself by listening to other records,” Rolle said. “The first thing I ever played was Ringo Starr and The Beatles’ ‘She Loves You.'”
He also joined a drum and bugle corp as a teen and word got around that he was really good. And in 1979, at 18-years-old, he went on an international tour with the disco group Musique.
“I went on from Musique to play with Evelyn Champagne King, Freddie Jackson, Glenn Jones, Bette Medler, Sting, Bono, Notorious BIG,”
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