About Frank Marino
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. In October 2025, he stated in an interview his nerve damage had recovered sufficiently to play guitar publicly again, when and how was left up in the air. 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. Marino himself claims that he did not consciously set out to imitate Hendrix: "The whole style just came naturally.
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