| Thom Rotella born 1951. Guitarist Thom Rotella has achieved success " both critical and commercial " as a talented instrumentalist and composer. He has made a series of engaging recordings that have attracted listeners on radio throughout America and has also had a thriving career playing and writing for television and films. Rotella has performed or recorded with a wide variety of well-known artists both in jazz and mainstream pop music. That list includes Rick Braun, Keiko Matsui, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Turrentine, David Foster, Kirk Whalum, Tom Scott, Eric Marienthal, Gerald Albright and Gregg Karukas, as well as pop stars Donna Summer, Cher, The Beach Boys, Lionel Richie, Bette Midler, Luciano Pavarotti and (last but hardly least) Frank Sinatra. As a composer, Thom has written music for the shows "Extra," "Sex and the City," "Santa Barbara" and "China Beach," and for programs on The Biography Channel, The Food Network and TV Land. He has created TV commercial jingles and underscore music for Ford, Cadillac, Goodyear, Chevrolet and Northwest Airlines. In addition, Rotella has also performed on "The Simpsons," "Family Guy," "American Dad," "The Tonight Show" and "The Tracey Ullman Show," and on numerous movie soundtracks, including; "Same Time, Next Year," "The Gods Must Be Crazy," "Rumblefish" and "Mississippi Masala." Thom Rotella was born in Niagara Falls, New York and raised by a very musical family. By the age of eight, he knew he wanted to have a music career and ... |
