Ted Leo

Ted Leo (b. South Bend, September 10, 1970 - ) – Singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Born in South Bend, Ted Leo grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Although he didn’t learn to play guitar until age eighteen, he got his start following high school by playing in hardcore punk bands in New York City. In 1990, he returned to Indiana to study English at Notre Dame, where he founded and fronted a successful mod-punk band called Chisel. In the mid to late 1990s, Chisel recorded numerous singles on the East Coast but broke up in 1997, at which time Leo moved to Boston and put together a short-lived punk trio called Sin Eaters. After shuffling back and forth between various projects, he settled down in 1999 to record a solo album, which morphed into his current group called Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, which completed six studio albums between 1999 and 2010. Blending punk rock with indie rock, classic rock and occasional hints of folk music and reggae, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have toured internationally. Throughout his career, he has recorded several albums with other punk bands, and he released his first solo effort, the Hanged Man, in 2017.