rosse was born in chicago, illinois and began studying music at a young age starting with piano lessons. through his training with jazz legend joe rotundi sr., eric grew to score an award-winning short film at the age of 17, 'day's last rainbow', which was directed by james herring. his first professional recording gig was at the sound factory in hollywood, ca in 1980. rosse was hired there to play electric piano on various r&b recordings, and continued gigging with various bands and musicians around los angeles until 1989, when he co-founded embr music with his brother, michael carey. they operated for five years under the name embr, producing music spots for well-known media entities such as coca-cola, tdk, anacin, sega, asics, ny aids awareness, nbc and cbs.