Orphaned at a young age, Rosa was 6 years old when she was brought from Russia to
the United States by her adoptive parents to live in Upstate New York.
As a young kid, growing up with two brothers, Rosa tried the instruments that she saw
her brothers playing.
5th Grade she began playing her first instrument, the trombone.
She occupied that position for 3 years until she decided to move on to...
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Orphaned at a young age, Rosa was 6 years old when she was brought from Russia to
the United States by her adoptive parents to live in Upstate New York.
As a young kid, growing up with two brothers, Rosa tried the instruments that she saw
her brothers playing.
5th Grade she began playing her first instrument, the trombone.
She occupied that position for 3 years until she decided to move on to more fascinating
equipment that involved more than an arm extending back and forth for hours on end.
The guitar and piano caught her eye, especially when she saw her brothers playing them.
After trying her hand at guitar she put that down and picked up the drums.
She took such a liking to them that she would spend hours during the summer practicing
up in the corner of her family’s small stuffy attic, in hopes to one day becoming a “rock
star”.
Finding a natural fit behind the drums she began playing out with her church band and
later joined her school’s worship band.
Listening and learning from inspirational bands like RED,
Flyleaf, and Nirvana she found her calling, and most
definitely her first love.
As she grew older, the whole “rock star dream” turned into
wanting to use her passion and gift of drumming for God.
Attending a private school she became friends with
Silversyde’s guitarist, Ali.
Knowing she was a drummer the band asked her to fill in at
an out of town show that the bands current drummer
couldn’t be at.
One practice later she filled in naturally at the show.
A year later the band had her in mind when they were
auditioning a new drummer for the band and asked Rosa to
try out.
She auditioned for female fronted rock band Silversyde and
landed the job.
Shortly after joining the band came her first major event
with the band playing for 5,000 people in Rochester, NY at
Winterfest 2011.
Within two months later she traveled to The Halo, in Windham, ME with the band to
record their first full-length album in the studio with members of the band “The
Wrecking” as their producers and Grammy Winning mastering engineer, Bob Ludwig.
At only sixteen years of age, Rosa began home schooling and setout on the road –
recording and touring nationally at some of the highest levels in the industry.
For several years she occupied that position.
During that time, she learned and grew as a musician.
She released her first full-length album (“Circus Circus” 2011) under Raging Storm
Records.
The album produced four top singles on The Billboard Christian Rock Charts.
As for Rosa Hodges Ortiz, in December of 2012, she resigned from her role with the
band in order to move on to other opportunities and leave her own creative imprint in
music.
She will forever remain passionate in her drumming career. She takes this time to focus
on session drumming, fill ins, teaching her drum students, and continuing to serve in the
CCM, rock, pop, and country music industry.
She has been playing drums for 19 years now and amazes many drummers and fans with
her work. Impressing and inspiring musicians and audiences everywhere, Rosa fearlessly
tackles the drums bringing a message of hope for those with physical disability and
limitations, showing that you CAN play the hand you have been dealt in life with
excellence, skill, strategy, and class.
What makes Rosa stand out the most as a drummer besides the obvious as a female
drummer would be her creative spark- Always challenging herself and the musicians
around her to step out into new waters and pay attention to the small details that go
unnoticed. Rosa is a team player, and she says “While playing cool fills are great and all,
my focus is to always be the backbone to the musicians around me holding down the beat
of a song to bring out the best in the song, not myself.” The rock industry will always be
her favorite to be a part of but she loves branching out into funk, R&B, and jazz. She
believes that Rock can be incorporated into almost any style and can change the whole
trajectory of a song for the better. Besides her drumming Rosa can be best described as
an easy going, spontaneous, genuine, humorous, determined, very extroverted and
slightly sarcastic human. She is accompanied by her husband Joel who is a Marine and
Welder, as well as her son Zeke who she homeschools. Her family is her everything and
they are always supporting her musical endeavors. She hopes that Zeke will take a liking
to the drums as he gets older to carry on the legacy!



MUSIC
“Circus Circus” – (Top 10 single - #9) - “Circus Circus” 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-Ulv-smPw
“Run To You” – (Billboard single) - “Circus Circus” 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnRJ7rujdNA
“Break Away” – (Billboard single) - “Circus Circus” 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUJzj5gpXYU
“Hear Me” – (Billboard single) - “Circus Circus” 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fXzB617H8Y
“Hush” – (Billboard single) - “Hush” 2013
Moses “Snowman” David
ROCKSTAR DROPOUT
Dont Hate Me
Rockstar Dropout
The Cypher
Role Model
Lahh Lahh
Teeter Totter
Life Of A Superstar
Left My Fears
Mom/Tribute
I Won
The Circus
Rap Games
Class In Session
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