Tom Waits
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican singer-songwriter and actor (born 1949)
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.
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Waits as a high-school senior at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, California in 1967. He dropped out at the age of 18.[10]
The Troubadour in West Hollywood, where Waits's performances brought him to the attention of Herb Cohen and David Geffen
Waits met and had an intermittent romantic relationship with Bette Midler (pictured here in 1981) and collaborated with her on the song "I Never Talk to Strangers".
In 1977, Waits began a relationship with singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones (pictured here in 2008); their work and styles influenced each other.
Publicity photo of Waits taken by Greg Gorman, c. 1979-80
Francis Ford Coppola (pictured in 1976) convinced Waits to leave New York City and return to Los Angeles to score his film One from the Heart.
In New York City, Waits shared a workspace with jazz musician John Lurie (pictured in 2013).In their own words 10
I collaborate with my wife on the songs, and every aspect of it, really - composing, and arranging, and recording, all that business. We have a rhythm and a way of working it.
Interviewed on Fresh Air, 2002-05-21.
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
"Misery is the River of the World", Blood Money (2002).
The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?
"All the World is Green", Blood Money (2002).
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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."
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