BIOGRAPHY

Bob Musial was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He currently makes his home in Villa Park, Illinois. He has been performing on stage for over 18 years. Bob is the former singer/songwriter for the modern rock band, PLANET STRANGE. He also has become involved with a special gathering called RELEVANCE, which meets in Chicago once a month.  

Over the years, Bob's bands have won several competitions and have opened shows for the likes of Guster, Harvey Danger, the Fixx, America, the Outfield & the Marshall Tucker Band. Bob's last band, Planet Strange has had their original music used for several TV shows including MTV "Undressed," and Jade Dragon Tattoo Commercials. If you are at the Chicago White Sox games, take a listen and you will hear their CD sometimes through the PA throughout the game.

 Bob performs these days as the Bob Musial Band and as a solo artist playing  many solo acoustic shows and is sometimes joined onstage at these shows by various friends.  He performs songs that are on his solo CD, as well as songs by Train, Vertical Horizon, & the Goo Goo Dolls to name a few. At his solo shows, Bob also likes to perform covers by some of his favorite artists like Neil Finn, Jeffrey Gaines, and Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Bob has previously served as host of the acoustic Open Mic Night at J.D. Mugg's in Addison, IL and has performed at many Borders Books & Music Cafe's,  Potbelly Sandwich Works, Navy Pier's Beer Garden and various bars & festivals in Chicago and the suburbs. His band was the tailgate band for the Chicago Wolves home openers for several years. 

He has had his music played on most of the major Chicago rock stations that have local music shows (WXRT, WLUP, Q101, WCBR,). He has performed live on the air on Save the Music Saturday on the Carmen & Silvy Show on ESPN Radio AM 1000, 95.1 WIIL Rock &  Q-101's Local Music Showcase.

Chicago rock station WLUP 97.9FM (The Loop) just recently featured the Bob Musial Band on their local noon show as a featured artist in the month of May 2006,  playing their song Dead Letter and adding a link for them on their website. Also in May, The Bob Musial Band advanced to the finals of Bandslam, a local music battle in Joliet.

Every couple months, Bob has been chosen to perform on Mondays at the Songwriter in the Round Series at the House of Blues in Chicago.