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Frank Marino (Francesco Antonio Marino) was born on 20 November, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Canadian guitarist. Discover Frank Marino's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Francesco Antonio Marino |
Occupation |
Musician, songwriter |
Age |
69 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
Born |
20 November 1954 |
Birthday |
20 November |
Birthplace |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Nationality |
Canada
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He is a member of famous Musician with the age 69 years old group.
Frank Marino Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Frank Marino's Wife?
His wife is Denyse Marino
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Denyse Marino |
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Frank Marino Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Frank Marino worth at the age of 69 years old? Frank Marino’s income source is mostly from being a successful Musician. He is from Canada. We have estimated Frank Marino's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
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Salary in 2023 |
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Francesco Antonio Marino (born November 20, 1954) is a Canadian guitarist and singer, best known as the leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush.
Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is described as one of the most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.
In 2021, he announced his retirement from music.
After playing drums since he was five, Marino started playing guitar around age 13 or 14.
An often-repeated myth is that he was visited by an apparition of Jimi Hendrix after a bad LSD trip - a myth Marino has always disavowed, and continues to do so on his personal website.
His playing, however, is inspired by Hendrix (on the Gibson website he is described as "carrying Jimi's psychedelic torch" ), and Marino is notable for often performing cover versions of Hendrix classics such as "Purple Haze" and "All Along The Watchtower".
He has been criticized by some as a Hendrix clone.
Marino himself claims that he did not consciously set out to imitate Hendrix: "The whole style just came naturally. I didn't choose it; it chose me."
Mahogany Rush was moderately popular in the 1970s.
Toward the end of the 1970s, the band began to be billed as "Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush."
Their records charted in Billboard, and they toured extensively, performing with well-known bands, including Aerosmith and Ted Nugent, and played at California Jam II in 1978.
Not much later, Mahogany Rush split up and in the early 1980s Marino released two solo albums on CBS.
The band reformed and continued to perform throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1990, Marino opened his own audio recording studio, Starbase Studio, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Marino reformed a band in 2000, "I always knew we had fans, I just didn't know I'd find half a million of them on the Web," he said in an interview with Guitar Player in 2005.
He released Eye of the Storm, and went on tour again, playing more improvisational shows.
After having not played live for a decade, Frank scheduled a tour for 2020 that was postponed due to the pandemic.
He rescheduled the tour for 2021, before announcing his retirement on June 30, 2021, due to an undisclosed medical condition.
He was also involved in blues recordings with other artists, playing on tribute albums to Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
His playing style is a combination of blues, heavy rock and, to an extent, jazz fusion techniques.
One of his notable tricks is playing (live) a lick as if it were played backwards, with the help of only a volume pedal and a delay.
His tone is recognized by, for instance, Guitar Player, which called him a "full-spectrum guitar god," alongside Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, and The Edge.
Marino is a devoted Gibson SG player and uses them with the original PAF pickups, as well as two with DiMarzio humbuckers.
He also has an SG with single-coil DiMarzio pickups.
He is noted for complicated setups; according to Guitar Player, he has "an entire pedalboard ... assigned to hold the expression pedals that control the parameters of the effects on another pedalboard."
In the past, he has built his own amplifiers to achieve the right sound; he also uses Fender Twins.
He currently uses a preamp which he built himself, reminiscent of a Fender, and any available power amp, through a 2" x 15" Fane cabinet.
Of Italian and Syrian background, Marino is a practicing member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Marino is uncle to Danny Marino, lead guitarist of Canadian metal band The Agonist.