Born in Goiania, Brazil, Rogerio started playing professionally at the age of 15. A few years later he found himself playing
with artists like Toninho Horta, Nathan Marques along with more than 30 different artists in his region in Brazil.
At the age of 21 Rogerio moved to Hamburg, Germany where he performed with many groups including Joe Gallardo, R.A.D., his own band Side by Side,
toured Germany with Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto, toured Denmark performing with bassist virtuoso Jorge Degas.
In 1998, Rogerio moved to Los Angeles and has been working as a session drummer/percussionist/singer in many projects from African-funk to World-pop music.
In addiction to his career as a session musician/composer Rogerio has been building -very quickly- a great reputation as a producer/arranger, recording in his own
studio or in other studios around Los Angeles.

ROGERIO'S PERFORMING/ RECORDING CREDITS INCLUDE

* Stewart Copeland (The Police) * Bill Summers (Sting, Los Hombres Calientes) * Armand Sabal-Lecco (Stanley Clarke, Jeff Beck) * Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report, Santana) * Bamboo Forest * Rhian Benson * The Mark Ellis Stephens Project (Chaka Khan, Diana Ross) * Paul Gurvitz (The Gun, Baker Gurvitz Army) * Prince Eyango and Les Montagnards D'afrique * Bill MacPherson * Brandon Fields * Dave Weckl * Steve Reid (Supertramp, The Rippintons) * Michael Mic Linden (Bad Haggis, Ed Man) * Melvin Lee Davis (George Duke, Lee Ritenour) * Jeff Kashiwa's Coastal Access * Deron Johnson (Miles Davis) * Jamie Green * The Steve Madaio Band (Stevie Wonder) * Eric Rigler (Bad Haggis) * Native Vibe * Vinx (Sting) * Quino (Big Mountain) * Noriko * Arnold Mculler (Phil Collins, James Taylor) * Karl Grossman (Camino Rio)

* Vinnie Colaiuta * Pete Byrne (Naked Eyes) * Phil Upchurch * Mark Ledford (Pat Metheny) * Jungle Funk * Steve Oliver * Orange Blue * Larry Kimpel * Frank Fakinos * Jimi Seville * Steve Tavaglione (John Patitucci, Diana Ross) * Tony Banda (The Banda Bros, Poncho Sanchez) * Alex Cabrera (Bobby Brown, Santana) * Bad Haggis * Cassio Duarte * Kleber Jorge (Sergio Mendes) * STOMP * Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets) * Luiz Conte (Madonna, Studio) * Dave Carpenter * Sandro ALbert (War) * Naked Eyes * Tita Lima * Vonyse * Infected Mushroom * Jack Gilpatrick * Faith Assembly

Contests:
1988- won the only schollarship for Brazil to represent the country at the International Music Camp -
summer course in North Dakota, USA, winning the certificate of excellence in performance by the National Band Association;
1990- one of the ten winners at the "second brazilian drummers contest", Sao Paulo, Brazil;
1997- one of the six winners of the "Jazziz Percussionists On Fire World Contest" by JAZZIZ Magazine, USA
(judges: Peter Erskine, Paulinho Da Costa and Dave Samuels);
2001- Honorable mention in the "Modern Drummer Magazine Undiscovered Drummer World Contest"