ARCA or Arca may refer to:
- Automobile Racing Club of America, a stock car auto racing sanctioning body founded by John Marcum in 1953 in the United States
- Automobile Racing Club of America, a forerunner of the Sports Car Club of America founded by the Collier brothers in 1933 in the United States
- ARCA Sim Racing '08, a race simulator
- NYSE Arca, an online stock exchange previously known as Archipelago
- Arca (genus), a genus of ark clams
- Arça or Arsk, a townlet in Tatarstan, Russia
- Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit organization based in Rome
- Arca (band), a French rock group featuring Joan Cambon and Sylvain Chauveau
- Associate of the Royal College of Art
- ARCA (NGO), a Romanian non-governmental organization that promotes aerospace projects
- Julio Arca, an Argentinian football (soccer) player
- ArcA (enzyme), aerobic respiratory control A
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Arca (producer)
Alejandro Ghersi, better known by his stage name Arca, is a Venezuelan record producer, consultant, mixing engineer and DJ based in Dalston, London.
Early life
Arca was born in 1990 in Caracas, Venezuela into a wealthy family. His father was an investment banker and his mother studied International Studies. His family moved to Connecticut for a time, before returning to live in a gated community, where he was privately educated and had the luxury of piano lessons. He describes his childhood as “kind of in a bubble”, and had difficulty accepting the fact that he was gay. He later attended the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU.
Career
In 2012, he released three EPs on the UNO NYC label: his debut as Arca, Barón Libre,Stretch 1, and Stretch 2.
In 2013, he lent additional production on four songs from the Kanye West sixth studio album Yeezus, in which he also served as one of the three production consultants along with Hudson Mohawke and Young Chop and as a producer on FKA Twigs' EP2. He self-released the &&&&& mixtape for free, and was involved in an audio-visual performance of &&&&& alongside Jesse Kanda, who contributed the visuals, at MoMA PS1 in October 2013.
Arca (genus)
Arca is a genus of saltwater clams in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.
Species
Species within the genus Arca include:
