Frank Castellano began playing the guitar in 1962 at the age of ten. In 1964, like thousands of other American kids, joined his first band, "the What Four" after having seen the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. The bands first gig was at a junior high dance for which they were paid the outrageous sum of eight dollars which set the boys on the road to rock stardom. Their parents drove.....

In 1972, Frank left Youngstown State University ,bought an ES335 Gibson guitar and joined a traveling show band , spending the next several years living in motels and traveling throughout the midwest,east coast and southern states . Five sets a night-six nights a week, grinding out show tunes,top forty hits, jazz standards and whatever it took to entertain America's itinerant sales force...

In the late 70's, Kent Ohio became his base of operations .The flourishing music scene provided ample opportunity to learn many different styles of music and become involved with projects such as writing music for a play that was performed at Kent State University. There were stints with country -rock bands,swing bands and occasional assignments as a pit player for the local dinner theater..... It was around this time that Frank began to cultivate a solo act which set him off on another direction, one that is in progress to this day.....

In 1984, A friend who had relocated to Las Vegas offered Frank a job playing in the pit band that accompanied a long running comedy-dance act which he stayed with for a few years as it moved about the southwestern part of the country. He eventually left the show and lived for a number of years in Lake Tahoe, playing in bands,working a few shows and writing jingles . There were a few more moves back and forth to Las Vegas and elsewhere when a chance meeting resulted in an offer to go to San Francisco where he stayed for three years, playing clubs and generally immersing himself in the music and art scene . .. Frank decided to move back to NE Ohio in '95 where he resides to this day.

Since his return,he has composed several pieces of music for dance that have been performed at the Butler Museum of Art as well as several television jingles ,one of which resulted in his receiving a Davey advertising award in 2006 for Enzo's restaurant. As one could imagine,the travel bug has been removed for the most part as Frank stays largely in Ohio performing with his quartet and as a soloist etc., writing and performing and continuing his lifelong quest for the meaning of life and a cold beer.