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Backstage with Robert Walter
...Chuck Prada, percussion- keeps fans on the dance floor with his vintage funk and soul coupled with modern grooves.
By Nicole Hall- February 12, 2002

Robert Walter, There Goes the Neighborhood
...Walter's piano struts its fine eighty-eights in your face while Chuck Prada keeps things flowing with his smooth, shaking percussion. Not even Dr. John could lay down something this fine these days.
By Jason Thompson- October 23, 2001

Will.I.Am - Change The Game
While production was handled by Will.I.Am himself, he does flex skills that lie outside the drum machine by teaming up with musicians such as Mike Fratenuno on bass, George Pajon and J Curtis on guitar, Chuck Prada playing percussion…
By Joseph Mandat

Robert Walter & There Goes the Neighborhood Band, Troubadour
...Chuck Prada and Stanton Moore went off on a monster back-and-forth on a couple Walter's tunes as the synergy flowed between the two beating behemoths. Prada looks like he's coming into his own and enjoying it...
By Olin Ericksen- May 11, 2002

Congress Is In Session
Robert Walter recently released his second solo project, There Goes The Neighborhood. In lieu of his 20th Congress band - Cochemea Gastelum, Chris Stillwell, George Sluppick, and Chuck Prada - Walter instead chose veteran players to back him up. Harvey Mason, Chuck Rainey, Phil Upchurch, Red Holloway, and his own Chuck Prada are featured performers.
November 16,2001

Beat Pharmacie
And finally Chuck Prada, who’s also performed with the Black Eyed Peas, is now on the road with jazz-funk organist Robert Walters’ 20th Congress. Individually they’ve worked with a veritable “Who’s Who” of artists ranging from the Greyboy Allstars, Ozomatli and A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip to Canadian loungecore duo Esthero and soul/R&B newcomer Macy Gray.
Issue 19.3 (Fall 2001)

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Artist Features: What's Up With Chuck Prada? Playing On Hits
Independent percussion artist Chuck Prada has put his groovy percussion beats all over the new single from Nelly Furtado. "Powerless (Say What You Want)" the single in question is based on fast, funky breakbeats and Nelly likes it that way. "I get to see a lot of DJ-oriented performance stuff, and I'm into the heaviness of breakbeats, how raw and powerfull they are. Everything lastely has become so synthesized, but just the standard sound of breakbeats is inspiring. "Powerless"... It just carries you away. There's a banjo mixed with breakbeats from Malcolm McLaren's Buffalo Gals." So right away you're bobbing your head".

By Phil Hood, DRUM! Magazine- October 30, 2003