Chuck Panozzo

Charles Salvatore "Chuck" Panozzo (born September 20, 1948) is an American musician best known as a co-founder of the rock band Styx. He is currently a part-time bass player in the band, sharing bass duties with Terry Gowan. Panozzo is living with HIV, which played a role in limiting his full-time participation.

Panozzo grew up in a working-class Italian Catholic neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 7, Panozzo and his fraternal twin brother, drummer John Panozzo, who died in July 1996, took music lessons from an uncle. He attended Catholic schools.

Panozzo received a degree in art education and taught art at the high school level. He left his teaching job to pursue his career in music with Styx.

In 1961–1962, Panozzo founded a band which would eventually become Styx with his brother, John and singer/keyboardist Dennis DeYoung.

The band's only number one hit in the US was "Babe", released in 1979. Other successful songs by Styx are "Mr. Roboto", "Show Me the Way", "The Best of Times", "Don't Let It End", "Lady", and "Come Sail Away", the latter being used many times in pop culture.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.