Born in Salerno, Italy in 1974, guitarist and composer Francesco Lo Castro started studying guitar at 25.

In the same year, he won the Best Guitarist Award at the Guitar Institute in London, where he attended tutoring classes by Shaun Baxter and Iain Scott.

In the same period he performed in clubs, pubs, and theaters around the world, playing with jazz, funk, pop and rock musicians.

Lo Castro has collaborated with Jim Mullen (Morrisey-Mullen), Geoff Wilkinson (Us3)[2] and performed with contemporary musicians such Francesco Mendolia (Incognito), [[Richard Sadler]] (Neil Cowley Trio), Damien Nolan (VV Brown), Roberto Manzin (James Brown), Italian trumpeter Fulvio Sigurta, two-time Grammy Award Winner Eric DeFade, Matteo Becucci (XFactor Italy winner 2009), jazz singer Michela Lombardi, Maurizio Minardi, and Bruno D'Ambra.

He has toured with Patrizio Buanne in the U.S., Australia, Asia, Europe and Sounth Africa,[3] and also produced and performed on Steven Bryan's latest two albums One Way and Gravity Always Wins.