excuse me did you see tommy martinez hanging around palmwood studios? oh no, that was carmelo " melo " rojas, the thirty year old who plays jacob knightly on rush. yeah, you know rumour has it they're arrogant and perfectionist, but their fans all say they’re humble and compassionate. the soundtrack to their life would probably be booker t by bad bunny, and when i think of them, the aroma coconut shampoo , the strum of his guitar, the warm smile etched on his features .
carmelo ' melo ' rojas was born on a sunny friday afternoon, he was the first born of luis fabian "luifa" rojas and cassandra alejandra rojas, their first child and the light of cassandra's eyes. his maternal grandfather was overjoyed with carmelo, he learned how to play soccer before he even learned how to walk and it didn't help that his grandfather was the trainer for almost two decade's for the venzuela selection team and took them to the world cup a handful of times.
though at the age of four years old , cassandra decided to move carmelo to the united states , atlanta to be more precise. the new life that they began to live was a lot more privileged than what he lived in venezuela. his paternal grandfather was the apple of his eyes, he loved him father but the relationship from the very start was very fickle, there wasn't a connection there ; not like it was with his grandfather ( his father's father ) wherever he went, you could see the older gentlemen together with carmelo. the older he grew , the more he noticed the hatred that began to brew within his father towards carmelo, he didn't know why. he was vile towards him, never treated him as his equal but more as his enemy , something or someone that was beneath him. though that never phased carmelo, if anything he got to a point by the age of fifteen that he didn't care , he had his mother, his twins sisters who he adored and his both maternal and paternal grandparents, who showered him with love.
at the age of seventeen, he was scouted by scout from COMEBOL who had been watching him for some time now, they wanted him to go through some lengthy trails and carmelo being carmelo went ahead and showed him why he was the best , it was only four years later that he was playing for Venezuela's selection team, playing for his home country and making his maternal grandfather proud, playing with a NUMBER 9 shirt and getting them past eliminations and into the world cup. . Carmelo took the team to the finals of the world cup , just at the ripe age of twenty - three years old he won the world cup for venezuela and there in one of those matches he met the love of his life, or the women that he thought would be the women he would spent the rest of his life with but during the last 15 minutes of the last game , he injured himself to the point that he was told he could never play again and the girl who he thought would stay by him , simply didn't.
once he made back home , with a champion tittle - he didn't feel like a champion , if anything he felt like a failure . after his paternal grandfather stepped down from his position at RED RECORDS as CEO and passed it on fully to carmelo. he decided that he wanted to expand his grandfather's work and opened up a label in miami florida , with the help of his aunt guadalupe rojas . his cousin luciana and him were inseparable as kids and they bickered like all families do but when it was time to go bat for eavh other , they were always there for one another. if anything they were more like siblings than cousins really. shortly after , he moved california and began a brand new career , people knew who he was and he thought he should give it a go in the acting industry and he turned out to be an even bigger superstar than he was before . his heart was closed off to everyone , only giving small pieces of his heart and random women in his bed every other night. he had already given hope in love , he had been there , done that already , why go back ?
