Birth Name: Zacharías Manuel de la Rocha
Place of Birth: Long Beach, California
Date of Birth: January 12, 1970
Ethnicity:
* Mexican, some Converso and Spanish (father)
* German, Irish (mother)
Family info:
Zack de la Rocha is an American musician, poet rapper and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. His parents are Robert Isaac “Beto” de la Rocha, an American painter, graphic artist, and muralist of Mexican (some Converso and Spanish) descent. His mother, Olivia Lorynne Carter, is of German and Irish descent.
His paternal grandparents are Isaac de la Rocha Beltrán (the son of José Isaac Acosta (later de la Rocha) and Sahara Beltrán Ojeda) and Cecilia Torres Cañedo (the daughter of Francisco Torres Angulo and María Josefa Cañedo Benítez).
His maternal grandparents are ? Carter and ? Fleming.
Sources:
* Olivia Lorynne Carter’s birth record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLNY-LCB
* Robert de la Rocha’s birth record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGLD-W9X
* Zack’s paternal grandparents’ 1940 US Census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9H5-7HJ