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Christopher Rossi (November 21, 1994), known professionally as Rooler is an Italian producer and DJ. Rooler is a large figure in the hardstyle community mostly popularised by his unique style of music predominantly within the hardstyle subgenre known as rawstyle, where he gained popularity in the mid 2010s

Born in Genoa, Italy, little is known of Rooler's childhood. He began producing music recreationally in 2009 mostly creating hardstyle and was yet to turn his music into his unique and creative ways as he does now. In 2010, he met with fellow artist Malice and became a duo for a couple of years.

Rooler's popularity majorly increased towards 2015-2016 as his music was gradually played more at hardstyle concerts in and around The Netherlands.

Early Life
Christopher Rossi was born on November 21, 1994 in Genoa, Italy. Little is known about Rossi's childhood up until 2007 when he took up an interest in hardstyle and began regularly listening to it even taking part in the popular dance at the time known as "jumpstyle" where he went under the name of "Chris Jumper" and began uploading videos of him dancing jumpstyle to YouTube. It was around this time he met fellow Italian hardstyle artist, Sickmode through these jumpstyle videos as Sickmode uploaded his own jumpstyle videos. Rossi recognised sickmode lived locally and contacted him for a video collaboration.

Career beginnings (2009 - 2013)
Rossi's music career started in Late 2009 when he discovered the digital audio workstation known as FL Studio and was inspired to create hardstyle for himself and encouraged Sickmode to come and produce as well and Sickmode agreed and were both inspired to become large producers although kept their expectations low. In 2010, Rossi met one of the Italian artists within the duo called, Malice and since they both had common interests within the genre and becoming producers the two came together and created a duo called "Double Connection" and began uploading their music to SoundCloud although not gaining popularity yet.

Once Rossi turned 17 he was allowed to attend his first hardstyle concert which was Reverze 2012 in Belgium. After attending the event he was inspired to start DJing which began his career has a DJ/Producer. It was around this time Rossi and Malice parted ways to produce individually instead of remaining in a duo although would regularly collaborate. Rossi changed his stage name to "Unnamed" and released tracks which include: System Failure, Sunshine Of Black and So High To The Rain. Rossi uploaded his first track known as "Running Out" to SoundCloud in 2013 under the stage name "Rooler" which is described as his first song which showed the uniqueness and experimental side of him and his move into the rawstyle scene.

Starting to gain popularity (2014 - 2016)
Rossi would begin playing at shows mostly nightclubs in and around his city in Early 2014 although he described this time as "getting nowhere" and had the ambition to move to The Netherlands after seeing it as the primary location of hardstyle when he would regularly visit the country for hardstyle events to be an attendee in the shows and so intrigued by how hardstyle was accepted in The Netherlands. Rossi began uploading to Facebook and showing previews of songs and showing them in the making even posting about he had no inspiration at times which made him struggle with producing and releasing songs on time. He would slowly begin to reach the popular state he achieved now when Malice would play his songs at shows and show them to labels such as Gearbox Digital. In January 2015, Rossi would sign onto his first label known as "Nutty Traxx Records" where he announced to focus his music to be more raw and dark.

Towards Mid 2015 Rossi's songs would start to be played by other DJs at major hardstyle events which is described as the beginning point of Rossi's career taking off majorly. Rossi's collaboration with Malice in a song called "Destructive Acts" would get the song placed at 88 in the hardstyle top 100. In August 2015 Rossi would sign to Gearbox Digital's sister label known as "Ignition Digital". Rossi would release more songs such as "Violence and "Number 23" and have them featured on Gearbox Digital. Rossi would then play at his first show outside of Italy in The Netherlands called "Suppression" in December 2015.