Raoul Roach on Clubhouse

Bio

Raoul Roach has forged a distinguished career in contemporary music as a prolific and respected upper echelon record executive that spanned over four decades. He has built a sterling reputation for mining gold and platinum records for a bevy of major recording stars and record labels including Quincy Jones, Anita Baker, the late Michael Jackson and Teddy Pendergrass, Grand master Flash, Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth, Tevin Campbell, Elektra Records, Qwest Records, and MCA Records, to name just a few.

Raoul's passion and ears for music are deeply rooted in his family's lineage and late father, the iconic and internationally revered jazz musician Max Roach. He was born and raised in New York City, and by age 15, was cutting his teeth working for his legendary dad, first as an office assistant, then a roadie, and eventually as his Road Manager and producer of several of his concerts. Roach was also firmly entrenched in activism, civil rights and the social justice movement of the sixties and seventies, so Raoul was exposed to and mentored by some of the most pivotal Black figures of the period including Maya Angelo, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka and Alvin Ailey.