Band: Charetta
Members: Angelina DelCarmen - Vocals
Pablo LaFrossia - Guitar
Chris Fullam - Guitar
Richard Mollo - Bass
Adonis Sanchez - Drums
Genre: Alternative Hard Rock
Description:
CHARETTA is a female-fronted modern rock band based out of New York City. Formed in 2007, the band’s sound has hard rock elements similar to artists such as Breaking Benjamin and RED, while layering angst-filled, yet melodic, female vocals. One fan accurately summarized Charetta’s sound by stating, “it sounds like Alanis Morissette punching Chevelle in the face.”www.charetta.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/charettamusic
Oh hot damn boys and girls! Here we go bringing you one more amazing kick ass, epic, awesome (and so on) band profile! This time we have one of my recent top of the list favorite bands: CHARETTA!!
Now, according to the site, www.charetta.com, not many knows what the band name means, and I wasn't gonna be a tool and go and ask them about it, (I'm a shy person. No, really.) So instead, I've decided it has something to do with Pokemon and the appetizer Bruschetta. Well, most likely I'm completely wrong but for now, it works.
This band is ridiculously amazing. It honestly blew me away when I was passed along this band from a twitter friend. Amazing vocals by a beautiful lady, music that punches a whole in your musical heart and passion that is felt through every song, Charetta is one to watch and get on board with now. they are going places, and probably going to make a ton more money then I will. (Just saying here. Oh yeah, click on my sponsors and help a poor blogger out. HA!! Shameless promotion For the Win!)
I got a chance to ask a few questions to this amazing band and as usual, it's not a hard hitting question type thing. I'm not all about grinding out that juicy gossip and crap. Just easy going questions. I hope you enjoy.
1.
The 5 of you have all been extremely busy between touring, videos,
recording etc. What do you each do on the down time? What's the main
hobbies you got?
Pablo:
Spend time with my family. It's a hard thing to juggle: my personal
life with my music, but my family is so supportive. Oh, and I love
tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons (maybe I
should keep that to myself!)
Angelina:
My down time? Anything forensic pathologist/murder mystery related!
- 'Bones' is my favorite show
Chris:
I love stand-up comedy and comedy podcasts. I listen to Adam Carollas
podcast every day. I think if I wasn't pursuing music, I would
definitely do something in that area. I love to make people
laugh...generally at the expense of being socially appropriate.
Adonis:
Spending time with my kids.
Mollo:
I enjoy working out at the gym, doing other fitness related
activities and playing sports with my 7 year old cousin.
2.
Out of all the tours you have done with amazing bands, whose the one
band/artist you wish you could tour with? Or, I suppose if you wanna
take the easy road, who would tour with again?
Pablo:
For a current band I would love to go on tour with Chevelle or
Staind. For my all time favorite band I would say Dokken or Lynch Mob
(anything George Lynch is involved in at the time).
Angelina:
I'd like to tour with "In this Moment" and "Halestorm"
. Their latest albums were so amazing - and I think their fans would
like us as well.
Chris:
I'd love to tour with Linkin Park because not only are they my
favorite band, but I'd love to see their equipment setup with the
samples, keyboards, e-drums, etc. Gear nerd moment there. Not to
mention the touring experience they have.
Adonis:
I love Sevendust, it would probably be awesome to tour with them.
Evanescence and In This Moment would probably be good fits for us
because of the female front person thing.
Mollo:
I would love to tour with DARK NEW DAY cause I think they were a
great band and would be cool if they reunited for a tour.
Plus it would be pretty awesome to tour with Brett who recorded our
first EP and full length album.
3.
I have a huge soft spot for Female fronted bands. Charetta even
topping my Top 5 list for that (http://bit.ly/R4gSSa),
but for the longest time, having a female lead was almost shunned.
Have you run into any haters?
Pablo:
Music is so diverse and personal, it's hard to please everyone. When
Nirvana first came into the scene, I was going through my "speed
metal" phase, so I was "hating" on them, but looking
back you can see how amazing they were and it really comes down to
songwriting and painting a "picture" with your music that
will appeal to others.
Angelina:
I get the "I hate all female rock singers but I love you"
- shucks I hope that's what they all say to all the Chicks in bands!
The great Ladies of rock don't get enough credit!
Chris
- definitely have some haters, but we view that as a compliment. You
have to be doing well for people to be critical. We also take it as a
challenge to win them over and prove them wrong. Adds a little fuel
to our fire.
Adonis:
Unfortunately we do have a few haters around. we've read some trash
talking online and stuff...Whatever that grade school stuff doesn't
bother us at all.
Mollo:
I think it is more of a strength for us, because people generally
like to see an attractive female front woman that is a good singer.
I haven’t come across too much hating in that regard.
4.
Natural follow up question: how about creeps and stalkers? Get a lot
of those?
Pablo:
I get them all the time! Oh, you meant Angelina. Okay, I don't get
any stalkers.
Angelina:
Just Mollo but I managed to cage him up when he misbehaves -
"DelCarmen DogHOUSE" but he seems to like it
-Two types of people. Those who like it, and those who lie about not liking it. lol
Chris
- Nah. We make an effort to interact with fans the best we can
before and after shows, and most everyone is cool. Sometimes its hard
because you get pulled in a few different directions, but we
encourage people to come up and say hello. We never get tired of
meeting the people who are supporting our dream. Our fans are great.
Adonis:
we have few creeps and stalkers, we call them fans...LOL and we love
them all!
Mollo:
Creeps and stalkers make the best groupies. Love em!
5.
What brands of instruments and mics do you play/use?
Pablo:
I've always played Les Pauls (left handed), with Bareknuckle pups in
the bridge, aptly named "Painkillers" (my favorite Judas
Priest album!). As for amps, I have an endorsement deal with FUCHS
amps and using their Mantis high gain amp model. Everyone at FUCHS
have been so supportive; I love them! I'm also using Hermit Cabs (ISO
cabs), with Scumback speakers. Yup, I'm a tone freak!
Angelina:
Currently and Audix and Shure IEM monitor system!
Chris
- ESP Guitars, Axe-FX II amp modeling, and Orange Cabinets.
Adonis:
Im endorsed by Vic Firth Sticks, Beato bags and Evans drum heads, I
love them used them before I got a deal. I use Drum Workshop drums
and an array of different cymbals.
Mollo:
Spector basses, Ampeg amplifiers & D’addario strings.
6.
What was the greatest show you ever played?
Pablo: I would say my favorite show would be this summer at Gramercy Theatre.
Angelina:
We work so hard every show feels better and better so "our last
one"
Chris:
Similar to Ange's answer - tends to be the most recent one, as its
freshest in your memory. For me, I enjoyed our headlining gig at The
Gramercy Theatre in NYC this past summer. We just wrapped up a 3 week
stint on the road, and as a band, we have never been tighter.
Adonis: I have to agree with Chris and Ange, Our last headlining show at Gramercy Theater in NYC was one of our highlights.
Mollo: the sold-out Irving Plaza show in July, 2011. Hottest day of the year and hottest show of the year as well.
7.
When are we getting new music? New videos?
Pablo:
We're working on it, writing new material right now and hope to
release it very soon!
Angelina: New Music- we're writing A LOT at once. When you're at this point in your music career- it's time to take your time writing the best album you can. For us that's at least till next year. New videos will follow- and there will also be a media/photo book.
8.
If you had a chance to colab with one artist/producer who would it
be?
Pablo: I would have to go with Bob Rock. Yup, I'm old school.
Angelina:
I'd love to work with Rihanna and her team. I'd love to write her a
song and then just have sing a little and dance a lot on our next
music video. Yes, I love a pop star....
Chris:
Staying on my Linkin Park theme, I'd say Mike Shinoda. I'm a fan of
everything he does as an artist, and he's been involved with a lot of
different genres on the production side of things.
Adonis:
Im a big fan of Nuno Bettancour and would love to work with him one
day.
Mollo:
Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath – cause they are
like gods.
9.
Why should people pick up a Charetta album?
Pablo:
Because it freakin' rocks! Without giving a sound bite, I would say
that the latest album showcases a band that's been together for four
years, playing, writing, getting to know each other, but most
importantly, becoming good friends. I can honestly say I love writing
music with my friends, and it shows in the songs. It's a
collaborations of our pain, struggles, overcoming obstacles, and we
do it because we believe in music.
Angelina: Because they're "front lady curious"
Chris: Because we write music that is honest and true to ourselves...I know, how corny. haha. But seriously – it’s amazing how people can recognize something that is genuine vs something that is manufactured to capitalize on the latest trend. Honest music always has a way of shining through, regardless of whats popular at the moment. Cliche, but true.
Adonis:I think we have the ability to appeal to more that one audience with some songs being of the straight acoustic variety and others a more straight ahead rock.
Mollo: Because the bass player is so damn sexy.
10.
Finally, what do you have going on? What's next for Charetta? What's
the news?
Chris:
We've been a little quiet lately in terms of announcements and shows
due to the fact we are working hard on new music. We are really
excited about the new material we are working on right now, and that
has been our main focus at the moment.
Adonis;
we're in the building (writing) stages of our next album , I think we
have a few good ones and we're hoping to record them Early 2013.
Mollo:
hope to have some new material recorded by early 2013 and then will
follow up with some tour dates and other fun stuff.
Again,
thanks for the time to answer this I look forward to getting the profile up as soon as I can!
Angelina:
Thank YOU
Damn, that was one amazing interview. I love doing this stuff folks. no lie. I again want to send a huge thanks to Charetta for taking the time to answer the questions and I hope you all enjoyed this! Don't forget to check out the previous profiles (Here) and definitely follow @Charetta and myself on Facebook, Twitter and pick up their music TODAY! I promise, you will be blown away as much as I was.
Happy Hunting, see you on Friday for the Top 5!
~ChittyB
Twitter@chitty_b
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