Tom Waits

Birth name: Thomas Alan Waits
Years active: 1973 - today
Born: 07 - 12 - 1973
Birth Place: Pomona, California, United States
Genre: Blues , Rock

Biography: Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as... [read more]