Birth Name: Zacharías Manuel de la Rocha
Place of Birth: Long Beach, California
Date of Birth: January 12, 1970
Ethnicity:
*Mexican (including Spanish and some Converso) (father)
*German, Irish (mother)
Zack de la Rocha is an American musician, poet, rapper, and activist, known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. His father is Robert de la Rocha (Robert Isaac “Beto” de la Rocha), a painter, graphic artist, and muralist of Mexican (including Spanish and some Converso) descent. His mother, Olivia Lorynne Carter, is of German and Irish descent.
Zack’s paternal grandparents were Isaac de la Rocha Beltrán (the son of José Isaac Acosta, later de la Rocha, and of Sahara Beltrán Ojeda) and Cecilia Torres Cañedo (the daughter of Francisco Torres Angulo and María Josefa Cañedo Benítez).
Zack’s maternal grandparents are ? Carter and ? Fleming.
Sources: Birth record of Zack’s father – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Zack’s mother – https://familysearch.org
Zack’s paternal grandparents, Isaac de la Rocha Beltrán and Cecilia Torres Cañedo, on the 1940 US Census – https://familysearch.org