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De La Cruz is an Australian hard rock band from Gold Coast, Australia. The band achieved much success from their debut EP in 2011 which led to them being offered a record deal with Frontiers Records in early 2012. It's rumoured that their full length album 'Street Level' will be released worldwide late 2012 and early 2013.

Early days
According to the Official De La Cruz Website, Casey had been uploading video's onto Youtube and Myspace for a few years, attracting millions of hits and industry contacts. One of these contacts was Roxxi Catalano. Roxxi lived in New Zealand at the time and had Myspace'd Casey about putting something together in the future. They recorded demo's for a few years over the internet until Roxxi moved to the Gold Coast in April 2011. Casey, Lacey and RJ met online as well, Lacey lived in Melbourne, Australia. Lacey moved up from Melbourne to be the drummer in what would be De La Cruz. RJ went to QUT University with Casey and had always spoken about doing something like De La Cruz together. Grant and Casey played in a tribute band together for about a year prior to Roxxi coming to Australia. Jakki (Bass Player) left the band to further his studies in Medicine, Grant had showed extreme interest in joining De La Cruz. Casey States on the Website that "When our 1st bass player, Jakki, Left for his career in Medicine, we had our eyes firmly set on Grant."

Debut album
On October 3, 2011, De La Cruz released their Free to download, Free to Listen and Free to Share 6 Track EP. The album achieved much success through social mediums such as Facebook, Youtube and Bandcamp and landed De La Cruz many interviews, reviews and features. In 2011 a Full Page De La Cruz Feature was published in Classic Rock Magazine. De La Cruz wrote and recorded the entire EP at Casey's Home Studio using 1 microphone. The Album production qualities were much talked about and praised by many including Grammy Award winning producer Mike Howlett

Full Length Debut Album
The album entitled 'Street Level' is to be released late 2012 or early 2013 according to the De La Cruz Triple J Webpage and their Official Website. The album is to have more than 10 tracks and once again be recorded in Casey's Home Studio.

Current members

 * Roxxi Catalano – lead vocals, (2011–present)
 * Casey Jones – lead Guitar 1, backing vocals (2011–present)
 * Rory "RJ" Joy – Lead Guitar 2, backing vocals (2011–present)
 * Grant Daniell – Bass, backing vocals (2012–present)
 * Pete "Lacey" Lacey - Drums, backing vocals (2011-present)

Former members

 * '''Dennis "Jakki" Jaculli - Bass (Early 2011-Late 2011)

Albums

 * De La Cruz (2011, Unsigned Online release)
 * TBR: Street Level (2012/2013, Frontiers Records)