Roque José Gallart Ortiz,[1] (born September 21, 1977) also known as Rocky the Kid, is a Puerto Rican broadcaster personality and occasional actor.
In 2023, the word perreo was included in the dictionary of the Real Academia Española and Rocky The Kid was the first to use that Spanish slang term in 1999 on the radio program "El Despelote" to describe or to say when they have a romantic date.
[2] Rocky the Kid became a well-known radio host in Puerto Rico over the years, and his fame allowed him to branch out into other areas of the show business world, starting in 2010, when he participated in "Que Despelote!
[6] Early in 2015, Gallart decided to leave "Lo Se Todo" after his radio employer, SBS, told him he would not be allowed to work with them and at WAPA-America consecutively.
[7] The contract offer by WAPA-America came only 4 days after Mamery, who had also left "Lo Se Todo" and whom Gallart had befriended, died of a heart attack.
[citation needed] In April 2015, Gallart declared on his radio show that "Lo se Todo" television personnel were victims of workplace harassment by show producer Niria Ruiz, also mentioning Joe Ramos in his comment, calling Pedro Juan Figueroa a hypocrite and traitor who never took the other hosts side against "Lo Se Todo" producers during arguments, affirming that Frankie Jay, another of the show's hosts, did so, and describing working conditions at "Lo Se Todo" as a "living hell".
[13] Gallart was arrested and briefly jailed in November 2013 by Puerto Rican police after allegedly sending threatening messages to a former girlfriend.