Gender: Male
Pete "La Roca" Sims was an American jazz drummer and attorney. Born and raised in Harlem by a pianist mother and a stepfather who played trumpet, he was introduced to jazz by his uncle Kenneth Bright, a major shareholder in Circle Records and the manager of rehearsal spaces above the Lafayette Theater. Sims studied percussion at the High School of Music and Art and at the City College of New York, where he played tympani in the CCNY Orchestra. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career, when he played timbales for six years in Latin bands. In the 1970s, during a hiatus from jazz performance, he resumed using his original surname. When he returned to jazz in the late 1970s, he usually inserted "La Roca" into his name in quotation marks to help audiences familiar with his early work identify him. He told The New York Times in 1982 that he did so only out of necessity:I can't deny that I once played under the name La Roca, but I have to insist that my name is Peter Sims with La Roca in brackets or in quotes. For 16 or 17 years, when I have not been playing the music, people have known me as Sims....When I was 14 or 15, I thought ["La Roca"] was clever; right now, it's an embarrassment. I thought that it would be something that people would probably remember - boy, was I ever right on that one! I can't make my conversion.
Source: Wikipedia | Last updated on May 18, 2024
On the name Pete La Roca, Pete means Rock, Form of Peter, Stone. La means Sun. Roca means Radiant.
The name Pete La Roca is often used as a Male name and is mostly used as a First Name.
Pete is commonly found in United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, and 80 more countries.
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At NamesLook, the name Pete is recorded 26,050 times globally, ranking it as the 2,510th most common name worldwide.
Pete is most prevalent in United Kingdom, with 11,388 occurrences, making it the 199th most popular name in the country.
In United Kingdom, the name Pete is found among 1 in every 48 people, showcasing its highest frequency there.
| Country | Rank | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | #199 | 1 : 48 |
| United States of America | #561 | 1 : 179 |
| Canada | #621 | 1 : 396 |
| Finland | #417 | 1 : 249 |
| Ireland | #635 | 1 : 309 |
| Germany | #1,887 | 1 : 1,239 |
| South Africa | #5,162 | 1 : 8,527 |
| Nigeria | #4,372 | 1 : 6,862 |
| France | #7,140 | 1 : 8,306 |
| Malaysia | #7,520 | 1 : 13,920 |
This chart displays the ranking of the name Pete from 1980 to 2023, based on the most recent data from the U.S. Social Security Administration.
Pete "La Roca" Sims was an American jazz drummer and attorney. Born and raised in Harlem by a pianist mother and a stepfather who played trumpet, he was introduced to jazz by his uncle Kenneth Bright, a major shareholder in Circle Records and the manager of rehearsal spaces above the Lafayette Theater. Sims studied percussion at the High School of Music and Art and at the City College of New York, where he played tympani in the CCNY Orchestra. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career, when he played timbales for six years in Latin bands. In the 1970s, during a hiatus from jazz performance, he resumed using his original surname. When he returned to jazz in the late 1970s, he usually inserted "La Roca" into his name in quotation marks to help audiences familiar with his early work identify him. He told The New York Times in 1982 that he did so only out of necessity:I can't deny that I once played under the name La Roca, but I have to insist that my name is Peter Sims with La Roca in brackets or in quotes. For 16 or 17 years, when I have not been playing the music, people have known me as Sims....When I was 14 or 15, I thought ["La Roca"] was clever; right now, it's an embarrassment. I thought that it would be something that people would probably remember - boy, was I ever right on that one! I can't make my conversion.
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