
Musician and composer / arranger of international renown now Joe Castellano is one of the top artists forefront of Italian and international Blues music from eighteen years, since that directs and drives his "JOE CASTELLANO SUPER BLUES BAND" on the most prestigious stages of the best music festivals. After many experiences, always directed to black music, which had started its journey into the band since 14 years in 1994 to begin the Joe Castellano Blues Band who had a guest voice on American sideman Miles Arthur (grandson of Jack McDuff and already Sugar present in the first disc), and in the summer of that year, opening concert of the great "King of Soul" Solomon Burke. By now, many years, is considered one of the most important artists of the Soul / Blues Europe and recently brought his design of the Super Blues Band at levels so high, to have impressed even the most careful and competent public criticism of each continent . In his now eighteen years of business on the Blues scene, Joe was in concert band and has hosted some of the biggest names in Blues & Soul global landscape, including: THE BLUES BROTHERS, The HOLMES BROTHERS, JOHNNY ADAMS, SHERMAN ROBERTSON , Eddie Floyd, Sugar Blue, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Al McKay, Sax Gordon Beadle, Chris Cain, LENNY CASTRO, CHARLES WALKER, Keisha Jackson, ROY ROBERTS, TONY COLEMAN, BOBBY DURHAM, VERNON GARRETT, GAVIN CHRISTOPHER, JOEY OF LEON , Boney FIELDS, Waldo Weathers, THORNETTA DAVIS, Harriet LEWIS, Rev. LEE BROWN, SIMONE DE, GORDON METZ, ANDY J. FOREST, BOBBY JOHNSON, ARTHUR MILES, STEVE LOGAN, DEREK MARTIN, and many others ....
Sometimes in his home to show friends who also represent the best names in the Italian scene of the Soul, as well as recently MICHAEL ALLEN, Roberto Ciotti, James Senese, GIULIO Todrani (father of singer Giorgia) and Paolo Belli.
He opened all the concerts in the Italian tour: SOLOMON BURKE (1994), THE BLUES BROTHERS (1995 and 2003), CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE (2004) and EARTH WIND & FIRE by Al McKay (in 2006 and 2007). Appointed in 2003, each year, RAI Radio 1 "Best artist of the genre Soul / Blues in Italy", was also a finalist in the prestigious' International Songwriting Competition in Nashville, an exhibition dedicated to the best composers around the world. Many of its best performances in the Italian and European Blues Festival. From Nancy, Monaco di Baviera, passing through the stages of the best summer festivals in our country. Only since 2005 has organized promotional evenings and appendices of the Blues & Wine Festival in special tour that touched celebrated theaters and famous places like Rome - Foro Italico and Teatro Romano di Ostia Antica, Naples, Florence, Taranto, Cesenatico, Trieste , L'Aquila, Ruffy (Lecce), Agrigento, Lamezia, Palermo, Cefalu, Siracusa, Marsala, Noto, Castelbuono, Mazara, Porto Empedocles and many others .... . From "Agrigento Blues Festival '94, the exhibition" La Ferrari and the Music "in 2006 - on small and direct invitation of the legendary Maranello and RAI Radio 1 - in countless billboards Jazz, Blues and Ethno, the same Dr. Joe has participated in and organized dozens of concerts throughout Italy and abroad, calling at his side, the world's greatest interpreters of these genres.
Is working on the presentation of his other great "creature" that will be the Band "JOE CASTELLANO & THE SUPER SOUL LEGENDS".


