Carter Mangan Jr.

Carter "Roc" Mangan Jr. is a music producer, musician and sound engineer from Newark, New Jersey. His company (Off The Rock), creates original content for film, television, artists and other media. His company has music in television series & films across many networks including CBS, FOX, Showtime, HBO, MTV, VH1, E!, Oxygen, BET, Bravo, The Travel Channel, OWN, Telemundo, Hulu, Revolt TV and Netflix.

Roc has garnered awards for "Best Soundtrack" in the New York International Film Awards for the documentary "Gone Too Soon: The Life, Legacy & Loss of Newark's Cultural Icons", and has also produced the music for "Welcome To Newark", a tourism promotional video featuring Newark based artists, musicians and poetry from Newark's Mayor Ras J. Baraka, which won an award for "Excellence in Marketing" at The New Jersey Tourism Industry Association and Bronze in the category of "Best Music & Sound craft" for The One Club for Creativity, a leading force in the advertisement community.

Roc has most recently collaborated with Audible in composing the soundtrack for a 28 foot tall monument in dedication to Harriet Tubman, designed by architect Nina Cooke John. The monument, titled "Shadow of a Face", is the centerpiece of a community gathering space in Newark's recently renamed Harriet Tubman Square. Audible has produced a permanent audio installation at the monument, featuring narration performed by Newark native Queen Latifah and a talented cast, about Harriet Tubman's life, the Underground Railroad in Newark and the freedom and liberation of Black communities.