Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. His lyrics often focus on the underbelly of society and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He worked primarily in jazz during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected greater influence from blues, rock, vaudeville, and experimental genres. Waits was born and raised in a middle-class family in Whittier, California. Inspired by the work of Bob Dylan and the Beat Generation, he began singing on the San Diego folk music circuit as a young boy. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1972, where he worked as a songwriter before signing a recording contract with Asylum Records. His first albums were the jazz-oriented Closing Time (1973) and The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), which reflected his lyrical interest in nightlife, poverty, and criminality. He repeatedly toured the United States, Europe, and Japan, and attracted greater critical recognition and commercial success with Small Change (1976), Blue Valentine (1978), and Heartattack and Vine (1980). He produced the soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's film One from the Heart (1981), and subsequently made cameo appearances in several Coppola films. In 1980, Waits married Kathleen Brennan, split from his manager and record label, and moved to New York City. With Brennan's encouragement and frequent collaboration, he pursued a more experimental and eclectic musical aesthetic influenced by the work of Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart. This was reflected in a series of albums released by Island Records, including Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985), and Franks Wild Years (1987). He continued appearing in films, notably starring in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law (1986), and also made theatrical appearances. With theatre director Robert Wilson, he produced the musicals The Black Rider (1990) and Alice (1992), first performed in Hamburg. Having returned to California in the 1990s, his albums Bone Machine (1992), The Black Rider (1993), and Mule Variations (1999) earned him increasing critical acclaim and multiple Grammy Awards. In the late 1990s, he switched to the record label ANTI-, which released Blood Money (2002), Alice (2002), Real Gone (2004), and Bad as Me (2011). Despite a lack of mainstream commercial success, Waits has influenced many musicians and gained an international cult following, and several biographies have been written about him. In 2015, he was ranked at No. 55 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Waits, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1949-12-07
Place of Birth: Pomona, California, USA
Also Known As: Thomas Alan Waits, 汤姆·威兹

Movies List of Tom Waits

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The Outsiders

1983 Movie
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Rumble Fish

1983 Movie
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Coffee and Cigarettes

2004 Movie
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Licorice Pizza

2021 Movie
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Down by Law

1986 Movie
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Short Cuts

1993 Movie
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The Book of Eli

2010 Movie
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Mystery Men

1999 Movie
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Ironweed

1987 Movie
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Big Time

1988 Movie
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Candy Mountain

1988 Movie
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Queens Logic

1991 Movie
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Twixt

2011 Movie
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Seven Psychopaths

2012 Movie
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Cold Feet

1989 Movie
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Paradise Alley

1978 Movie
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Domino

2005 Movie
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Wildwood

Movie
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Star.Wav

Movie
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The Laughing Heart

2013 Movie
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The Cotton Club

1984 Movie
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The Two Jakes

1990 Movie
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The Fisher King

1991 Movie
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This Is Sparklehorse

2016 Movie
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One from the Heart

1982 Movie
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Mystery Train

1989 Movie
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Tom Waits for No One

1979 Movie
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The Old Man & the Gun

2018 Movie
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The Stone Boy

1984 Movie
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Poetry in Motion

1982 Movie
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The Dead Don't Die

2019 Movie
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The Moon’s Milk

2018 Movie
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The Absence of Eden

2024 Movie
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Wolfen

1981 Movie
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Motherless Brooklyn

2019 Movie
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Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992 Movie
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The Monster of Nix

2011 Movie