Five Fun Facts with Joe Romersa
Joe Romersa
The real “Diamond Jockey.”
It's not often that we get to introduce you to a legend like Mr. Joe Romersa. He's a musician, composer, voice actor, and music producer recognized in his teens for his talent with sound. We honestly couldn't think of another word to describe him other than an absolute legend.
Imagine having an extraordinary music teacher who turns your interest in music into a full-blown passion for all things musical. Which then leads you to have an illustrious music career and working with many notable acts. Yup, in short, that's how Romersa's journey started and how he's been able to rub elbows with some of music's greats such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Tom Petty, to name a few. Romersa was in the studio during the increasing West Coast Hip Hop movement and was one of the first recording engineers to tune vocals when the industry progressed from analog to digital recording and mixing.
His work is impressive, and it led him to release his first solo album in 2017, titled Enough. However, his latest release, "Diamond Jockey" is what we're most excited to share with you today.
There's even a music video for the track, which we highly suggest you check out below.
Romersa is currently working on new music, which he hopes to release by Spring of 2021. Until then, he kindly let us get to know him a bit better by sharing some facts about himself.
While in high school, I hiked a borrowed cello into the Yosemite backcountry and sat on a rock outcropping playing the cello for hours.
After a gig at Miyagi's on Sunset Blvd, a chance encounter with Weird Al Yankovic ended with Weird Al helping me carry his drums from the venue and into my car.
In a somewhat surreal moment, while having dinner with a small group of friends, I asked the country music legend Johnny Cash to "pass the peas," and he did.
Raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, I spent three summers working on my uncle's hay farm in Wisconsin. At the tender age of ten, they had this city boy (me) driving a tractor.
Hanna Barbera used my earliest garage band to rotoscope the band's moves in the short-lived cartoon "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids" and later for "Josie and the Pussy Cats."
- Joe Romersa
Written by Piera Lolandes