Hello everyone and welcome to Drum Channel. I’m Billy Amendola and my guest today is drummer/teacher/entrepreneur Ralph Rolle. 

Ralph’s day job for the past seventeen years has been playing with legendary producer/artist/guitarist Nile Rodgers and Chic. For twelve years in the the mid-nineties, Rolle spent time on TV as the drummer in the house band for “Showtime at the Apollo,” with music director Ray Chew. 

Ralph’s performance list includes artists: Sting, Bette Midler, Bono, Elvis Costello, Vanessa Williams, Mary J. Blige, Biggie Smalls, Queen Latifah, Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, John Legend, India Arie, Roger Daltrey, Dolly Parton, Freddie Jackson, Joss Stone, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, and many more. 

In 1990, Rolle ran his production company “Phat Kat” recording, writing and producing major TV commercials, and in between all this, to this day, running a very successful cookie company, “Soul Snacks.“ Let’s welcome one of the smoothest groove players on the planet to Drum Channel, Ralph Rolle.