What makes multi-instrumentalist Joe different than other guitarists is a combination of many abilities that comprises many facets of his creativity. Such abilities include his diverse musical knowledge led composition skills, fingering skills, self-pioneered DIY approach for instrumental music and nevertheless, his music reading and delivery skills (hitting the right notes and mixing them into his own composition).

Simply, his compositions generally sound easy on the ears, but in reality, they are severely hard to master.

Born on July 15, 1956 in Westbury, NewYork to a family descended from Italian immigrants, Joe was interested in music since his childhood.

However, he whole-heartedly decided to be a guitarist upon hearing the death news of his role model Jimi Hendrix. After hearing the sad news, then Joe, who was 14 years old, told his football coach during a football practice that he wanted to quit football to be a guitarist.

Now fast forwarding to 2015, he is generally acknowledged for two reasons; one for being one of the world's most commercially successful solo guitarist and another for being the guitar guru who had been teacher of many popular figures including  Steve Vai, Rick Hanolt, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter and many more.

Now moving on to his physical configuration, he is an average tall man with the height of 5 feet and 7.51 inches. Moreover, he is also known as "the bald man". He has been suffering from hair loss since the age of 30.  Furthermore, his face is oval shaped and he has slender body.

Personality wise, he is an expressive and straightforward person.

Talking about his relationship status, he is a married man as far as we know. Joe and his wife Rubina (Singaporean heritage) has been married since a long time now. The couple has a son named Zachariah Satriani. 

Out of his 15 albums including 2015's Shockwave Supernova, the most famous ones are "Surfing With the Alien", "Flying in a Blue Dream", "The Extremist", "Time Machine", "Crystal Planet", "English of Creation" and "Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards". Nevertheless, he has also collaborated with many famous acts such as Steve Miller, Dream Theatre, Crowded House and many more.

15 time Grammy Award nominee and owner of numerous gold and platinum albums, Joe has also seen millions of record sales till now (above 10 million sales).

Keep connected to our site to get more wiki on him. Moreover, fans can visit his personal website satriani.com to know more about his musical world from discography, songs, extended play, live albums to news and also to buy his program tickets.

As of present, he is busy performing concerts and programs all over the world. Today, as of October 1, 2015, he is performing in Barcelona.

Last but not the least; one can follow the social magnet via his social networking sites such as Twitter (293k followers) and Instagram (76.9k followers).

His twitter tweet id is " @chickenfootjoe" and his twitter short-description is given as:

"I am the guitarist Joe Satriani. I am also a member of the band Chickenfoot. Check out my music: http://satriani.com , iTunes, etc..."