Bio
Marty Casey amassed a few million fans around the world thanks to his remarkable run on the hit television show, ROCKSTAR: INXS. While on ROCKSTAR, Marty Casey became the fan favorite and introduced his original tune, “Trees” to much acclaim.
The buzz Marty created on the 2005 reality show escalated to a full-blast musical fury of songwriting, touring and recording. He hit the high notes with his critically acclaimed CD, "Marty Casey and Lovehammers," which the Washington Post called "a well-polished hard-rock collection;" opened for INXS on the first leg of their world tour, had his first headlining tour in the spring / fall 2006, released a DVD of a special HammerJam concert in Chicago, and a new Christmas album titled "Merry Christmas (All Year Long)." An independent music video for the song, loosely based on the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" premiered online at MartyCasey.com and MySpace, as well as in the "...and the rest is history" DVD by Lovehammers.
Marty has been lead singer of the Chicago based rock band, Lovehammers, for over seventeen years now. The winner of the John Lennon Songwriting writing Contest with "Rain on the Brain," Marty and Lovehammers - longtime favorites on the Chicago rock scene - chartered inroads as opening acts for such rock heavyweights as Nickelback, Jerry Cantrell, Interpol, New Found Glory, Cake, and Gomez. In 2004 the band's DVD, "Live/Raw" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard musical DVD chart; and their song "This Town" was selected as the theme song for the World Shidokan Championships on ESPN.
Since June 2008, Marty Casey has also been lead singer for L.A. Guns, one of the hardest rocking and most notorious bands to come off of the famed Sunset Strip. He hit the road this summer for the U.S. and South American Blackout Tour with his new band mates - Jeremy Guns, Chad Stewart, Alec "Big Al" Bauer, and band founder Tracii Guns, who calls Marty "a charismatic front man with a golden voice, incredible drive and impeccable songwriting skills."
The above bio quotes from and is directly based on excerpts from Marty Casey's bio at www.MartyCasey.com as written by Amy Coker-Pascoe
