Joe Romersa

Joe Romersa is an American musician, composer, voice actor, and music producer.

Romersa started his career as a drummer, but after a tragic early tour at age 19 left him homeless in New Jersey, he began working on music to make money while doing what he enjoyed.

Romersa later studied sound engineering. According to Romersa, combining his fledgling career as a professional musician with the more stable income of sound engineering allowed himself to hone his craft as both a drummer/percussionist and as a sound engineer.

Career

Early career Romersa started touring as the drummer for the Marc Tanner Band. On April 19, 1979, they would open for Firefall, at the Palace Theater in Cleveland Ohio. The Marc Tanner Band also opened for Jefferson Starship. Romersa was a drummer, percussionist, and composer on Tanner's second album, Temptation, along with guitarist Ritchie Zito and bassist Ron Edwards.

Soy Cowboy While working in the studio, a chance meeting with keyboardist and songwriter Vincent Nicoletti would result in the band Soy Cowboy with its "Thai Western" sound. Romersa was brought in as a drummer and sound engineer, and eventually became lead vocalist. After their first recordings received airplay by Los Angeles radio personality Tom Schnabel of KCRW-FM (89.9), the band caught the attention of then-art student Tarsem Singh. In 1990, Singh would produce Soy Cowboy's only music video for their song "Lily Pads and Rock Cod". Soy Cowboy's first album, First Time Again, was produced in 1991 but it was not released to the public. The album would later be released in 2009, by Shadow Box Studio. Their second album, 2012, was produced and released in 2012. As noted by Schnabel, "The band got moderate airplay on U.S. radio, but in England briefly jumped to the top of the charts."

Sound engineering

Romersa was both a drummer and engineer on John Prine's 1991 album The Missing Years. He would go on to work with Carlene Carter on her 1993 country music album Little Love Letters as the drummer, percussionist, engineer and backup vocalist, along with bassist Howie Epstein and keyboardist Benmont Tench. Little Love Letters would rise to No. 35 on the Top Country Albums chart and included the No. 3 hit "Every Little Thing" and two top 100 songs; "I Love You 'Cause I Want To" (#50) and "Unbreakable Heart" (#51). Romersa's daughter, Reyna, would make her video debut in "I Love You 'Cause I Want To".

In the late 1980s, Romersa began working with eden ahbez. Romersa and ahbez worked together until the latter's death in 1995.

Voice acting In 1994, Romersa started engineering, voice acting and ADR directing on anime and video game projects, which led to his work on Silent Hill.

Return to music One of Romersa's projects as a producer was singer Alana Sweetwater's 2004 self-titled debut album. Her single from that album, "Song of Love", was featured on the original Showtime series The Real L Word. Romersa was also a musician on the album and sound engineer.

Romersa released his first album as a solo artist in 2017, Enough. Written and composed by Romersa, Enough includes tracks by fellow musicians including Laurence Juber ("Love, and You"), Prescott Niles ("Enough", "Humans Doing Angels' Work", "Soldier of Love") and Jeff Jourard ("Give Our Money Back").

Romersa's musical inspirations include The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Cage, Jimi Hendrix, Louis Prima, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Move and David Bowie. NeverDead as Astaroth

Non-anime voice-over Big Rig Buddies as Smokey the Fire Truck (formerly)

Staff work Armitage III as ADR Engineer Brave Fencer Musashi as Voice Director Bushido Blade 2 as Digital Tracker (English voices) The Castle of Cagliostro as Digital Tracker, English Adapter, Director (Manga Entertainment dub) Dual! Paralle lunlun monogatari as Final Mixer, director Ghost in the Shell as Digital Tracker (English voices) Firefighter F.D.18 as English Dialogue Director Front Mission 4 as Voice Director Invisible Mom II as Music Supervisor Lurking Fear as Dialogue Editor Nano Breaker as ADR Director The New Adventures of Captain Planet as Sound Designer Reaper Tales as Sound Recordist Resident Evil 5 as Sound Designer, Video Storyboard Artist Shadow Warriors as Dialogue Editor Silent Hill: Homecoming as Lyricist Street Fighter Alpha as Writer, director Suikoden IV as ADR Director Timberwood Tales as Editor Tollbooth as Dialogue Editor, ADR recordist Wings of Honnêamise as Dialogue Sound Engineer Got Milk? as Music Score