# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-waits
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:47:48.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-waits"
name: "Tom Waits"
slug: "tom-waits"
description: "Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Jim Fusilli calls him \"A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden\" who \"creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view.\" His unique voice was described by 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.\""
tagline: "American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Waits_(1974%E2%80%9375_Asylum_publicity_photo_-_with_cigarette).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           27.787936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump