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Rodion Ladislau Roșca (4 April 1953, Cluj, Romania - 26 March 2021) was a romanian rock musician.

Biography
Rodion was born on the 4 April 1953, in Cluj-Napoca, in the thenSocialist Republic of Romania. His father was Romanian and his mother was Hungarian. Rodion was experimenting since his highschool years with the possibilities of generating new, unconventional sounds. Using at first one (and later several) tape recorders, he recorded his guitar and, by overprinting or overmodulation, achieved a completly changed sound, very similar to that of a synthesizer. A graduate of the Cluj High School of Music, where he learned the clarinet, Rodion was more attracted to composition and experimentation, between 1970 and 1977, he recorded over 70 songs by his own means, in his apartment.

In 1977, together with Gicu Fărcaș and Adrian Căprar, he founded the band Rodion G.A., continuing to write music according to his own philosophy. The band was considered the rock revelation of Romania and was active until 1983. The main compositions that will define Rodion Roșca's sound are : "Stele și Lumini" (Stars and Lights), "Imagini din Vis" (Images from the Dream),"În liniștea nopții" (In the stillness of the night) and "Uneori" (Sometimes). The songs one by one reach the top of the rankings of the radios and magazines of the time. The band continued to bypass professional recording studios and experiment with recording in its leader's small apartment.

In 1983, the band broke up due to the instability of its formula, in 6 years several dozens of instrumentalists were lost. Rodion Roșca continued to compose for theater and television until 1989 when, after the death of his mother, he could no longer find the resources to go forward.

In 2008, the production house Roadrunner Music Romania brings the band Rodion G.A. in the attention of public opinion, after 19 years of absence. The procedures for remastering the songs of Rodion G.A. begin, but everything stops with the bankruptcy of the record company.

In 2012, Rodion Ladislau Roșca was rediscovered by the collective of musicians Future Nuggets who, together with the London production house Strut Records and mediated by Ambassador's Reception released in May 2013 the first full album signed by Rodion G.A.For Romanian culture, Rodion Roșca's career represents an extremely vital form of resistance in the cold and gloomy period of Romania's communist regime.

Rodion Roșca died on March 26, 2021.