Rocky Lynch

**Rocky Mark Lynch** (born November 1, 1994) is the lead guitarist of the pop rock band R5 and a founding member of the music duo The Driver Era.

Rocky can play the guitar, bass, piano, drums, and the triangle. He taught himself and his brothers how to play guitar.

 His ancestry includes German, Irish, English, 1/16th Danish, and smaller amounts of French, Scottish, and Welsh.

## Early life

Rocky was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado. He is the third youngest of five siblings (big sister Rydel, big brother Riker and younger brothers Ross and Ryland). He is homeschooled, like all of his siblings. He is a second cousin of entertainers Derek Hough and Julianne Hough, their maternal grandmothers being sisters. Rocky and his family moved to Los Angeles in 2007.

## Career

### **Solo music**

In 2016 he, along with Olivia Holt, recorded a cover after Selena Gomez's *Hands to Myself*.

### **R5**

In March 2010, R5 self-released an EP, *Ready Set Rock* and in April 2012, they signed with Hollywood Records. Their second EP, *Loud*, was released on February 19, 2013, which featured the lead single and title track "Loud". The band's first full-length album, *Louder*, was released on September 24, 2013, and the album included the four songs from *Loud]]* as well as seven new songs. The second single from the album, "Pass Me By", premiered on Radio Disney on August 16, 2013. The music video premiered on August 29 on Disney Channel and is available for public viewing on the band's Vevo channel. The third single, "(I Can't) Forget About You", was released on December 25, 2013, and reached number 47 on *Billboard* Digital Pop Songs, and the fourth single "One Last Dance" on May 29, 2014. The third extended play, *Heart Made Up on You*, was released on July 22, 2014, and the self-titled single was released on August 1, 2014.

On November 16, 2014, the band released the first single from second album, "Smile". "Let's Not Be Alone Tonight", the second single, was released on February 13, 2015. "All Night" was released as the third single on June 2, 2015, along with the album's iTunes pre-order.

The band released their second full-length album on July 10, 2015, titled *Sometime Last Night* and debuted at number 6 on *Billboard* 200, number 1 on *Billboard* Top Pop Albums, number 3 on *Billboard* Top Digital Albums, and number 4 on the *Billboard* Top Album Sales.

On May 12, 2017, R5 released their fifth EP *New Addictions*.

### **Soundtrack**

He recorded a soundtrack for the Disney show Austin & Ally and for the upcoming movie Colossal Youth.

### **Television**

Rocky has appeared on the television show *So You Think You Can Dance* and in one episode of the comedy drama show *Wedding Band,* with his older brother, Riker.

### **The Driver Era**

In 2018 Rocky, with his younger brother Ross Lynch, formed the alternative-rock band, *The Driver Era*. Though, in many interviews, Ross and Rocky have explained that they don't like labeling their music in one genre and enjoy expressing their music in many different genres.

Their debut single, Preacher Man, was released on March 16th, 2018. In 2018, they also released the song Afterglow. Both of these songs were eventually featured on their first album "X", which was released on June 28th, 2019.

Since the release of their album, they have released 4 more singles, the most recent coming out on April 2nd, 2020.

While most of the tracks do feature the lead vocals of Ross Lynch, Rocky Lynch has had lead vocals on the songs Low, Forever Always, and Flashdrive.