Ted Leo
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Ted Leo performing at the 2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Theodore Francis Leo |
| Born |
September 11, 1970 South Bend, Indiana |
| Genres | Punk rock, hardcore punk, power pop, indie rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, guitarist |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Associated acts | Citizens Arrest, Chisel, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Both |
| Website | www |
Ted Leo is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman and lead guitarist of punk rock group Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and in 2013, he and Aimee Mann formed the indie rock duo The Both.
Leo was a founding member of the New York punk band Citizens Arrest in 1989. In the 1990s, Leo played in bands that included Chisel, Puzzlehead, and The Sin-Eaters.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists was formed in 1999 in Washington, D.C. The group recorded six studio albums between 1999 and 2010. Leo has also maintained a consistent presence as a solo performer since the 1990s.
In early 2013, Leo and Aimee Mann formed a duo called The Both, after Leo had toured with Mann for several months as her supporting act. He and Mann began writing songs together, and in March 2013, the duo performed their first show together as The Both (originally formatted as the hashtag #BOTH). Their self-titled debut album, The Both, was released in April 2014.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Leo grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where his family was from, and spent many formative years in the hardcore punk scene of New York City during the 1980s and early 1990s. He graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange in 1988 and the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 1993 with a degree in English.
Leo grew up in New Jersey before moving to South Bend, Indiana to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he formed Chisel. He then moved to Washington D.C., and briefly moved to Boston thereafter. Leo currently lives in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and splits time between there and New York City.
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