For musician Joey Maltese, life is about “music first, everything else second.” Since 1980, the multi-talented rock artist has been in more than a few bands, released four solo albums, and written and produced hundreds of songs.
Maltese was born in Miami, but he moved to Burlington County with his family before he started high school. In high school, he got his musical start in a band called Utter Chaos, which Maltese joked was “what the band sounded like.”
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