Biography
We saw the types of experience and order of the charter - such is the lyrical hero of the songs of the American singer Tom Wates. For half a century of creative activity, Tom released dozens of albums and starred in many films, while not lost the originality, remaining one of the most informat and free musicians of modernity. Watez's music is not about commercial success, but about the search for an independent artist, the ulcer and ironic, eccentric and charismatic, who creates its own worlds outside the canons and flows.Childhood and youth
Tom Wait was born in December 1949 in the California city of Pomona. The musician loves to talk to the jokes from his life, in which, however, there are often discrepancies. One of the Baek says that he did not wait for him to appear that he was born in the backseat of the car, a couple of minutes drive to the maternity departments. The parents of the boy were taught at the local school, and among his ancestors there were Norwegians, Irish and Scottish.
Embed from getty imagesWhen the child was 11 years old, the parents divorced, and Tom and Mother moved to the south of California, where he received primary education at San Diego. Already then, the future musician began writing poetry and began to learn to play the piano.
The teenager inspired Hipsters, who own the minds of the 60s. Wait readed by Jack Keruachac, listened to Bob Dilan, while appreciated the classics - Louis Armstrong, Binga Crosby and Cole Porter. So there were his musical taste and style in which jazz, rock, blues and folk were found.
Embed from getty imagesThe guy did not really like her studies and after school in the college did not go, setting a job in the pizzeria. This fact is known to fans of Wate's creativity, because they will form two songs.
Before the start of the creative career, Tom managed to serve in the US coast guard troops and work the guard in the nightclub Los Angeles. The singer told that, standing one day at the door, began to listen to the chatter and write it down. In fragments of random, little significant phrases, the guy heard music and decided to start speak himself.
Music
The peculiarity of the musician immediately appreciated, and he easily signed the first contract, having met with the producer of Frank Zapapi Herb Koen. In 1973, Wait releases the first album "Closing Time", which did not bring deafening success, but made critics to look at the strange singer, playing a mixture of Jazz and Folka. Tom did not count on the glory, going to the debut tour, where he spoke on the heated of popular teams.During the 1970s, the musician records 7 plates that bring the philosopher-propoance reputation. And he really drinks a lot, lives in dirty motels and forgets to eat. We can say that alcohol and cigarettes in those years climbed the branded "emery" voice, which takes over the soul of Wate's listeners. In 1976, "Small Change", full of cynicism and pessimism, and release brought the performer first commercial success.
Serious, deeply individual talent of Tom made talk about myself, despite informality. The narrator in these songs tells about the tramps, drinkers and other losers under the accompaniment of saxophone, piano and double bass. The 1978 album "Blue Valentine" secured the first success and continued a number of capacious disdicamentary stories, full of accurate poisonous replicas.
In the 1980s, Wate's creativity significantly changed: new topics, tools appeared, the sound was updated. The turning point is associated with the fact that the artist met love - Kathleen Brennan, which influenced his lifestyle and music style.
In 1985, the album "Rain Dogs", mixed on a number of genres, among which gospeles, ballads and country were added to the usual jazz and blues. This plate edited by Rolling Stone included in the list of the greatest albums of all time.
The tenth release "Bone Machine" came out in 1992 and brought the author first Grammy as the best alternative album, and in the 1999th Mule Variations, the same reward in the nomination "The Best Album of Contemporary Folk".
Tom discography includes 2 dozen plates, the last of which came out in 2011 and became an expected event. The famous musicians Keith Richards and Fli participated in the record "Bad As ME". In the same year, Wayats included in the Hall of Glory Rock and Roll in Cleveland, where the most influential and significant cultural figures of the era fall. In the account of the artist's cult songs, among which "Blue Valentines", "Russian Dance" ("Russian dance"), "for no one" and "underground".
Films
In the late 1970s, Tom began to be interested in movies. At the same time, he tries himself as an actor and composer to the films. Projects in which Weight participates, it is difficult to call mainstream.
Favorite directors Jim Dzharmush, Terry Gillim, Cohen's brothers make a successful movie close to the author, and do not change their own style. Cooperation with Dzharmush resulted in the tape "Outside the Law", "Mysterious train", "coffee and cigarettes", as well as in a long friendship. Jim takes off for a comrade clips, and he writes soundtracks to his cinema.
Classic Hollywood Francis Ford Coppola loves to remove Tom in his films. For the first time, they met on the filming of "Roguev" in 1983 and since then they worked together in the "Dracula", "fighting fish", "between" and other ribbons.
In addition, in the windows filmography, such pictures are launched as the "imaging of Dr. Parnassa", "Bastera Skranggs Ballad" and "Seven Psychopaths". A man to this day is filmed into the cinema and writes music to him.
Personal life
"Paradise for me is me and my wife on the track number 66 with a mug of coffee, a cheap guitar, a tape recorder with a flea market, sitting in the motel and looking out the window on our car, which is parked by the door itself," is the romance, in the view of Toma Waits. Embed from getty imagesSee you with Kathleen Brennan, the musician called himself the owner of a sick liver and a broken heart. In his personal life there were other women - American comedian Elaine Buzler and actress and singer Bett Midler, with whom a man met in the 1970s.Meeting with Kathleen, as the singer recognized in one of the interviews, saved his life and changed everything. They met in 1978 on the set of the film "Hell's cuisine". At that time, Brennan worked as a screenwriter, and Tom began to try himself as an actor. The girl was from Illinois and raised in Catholic traditions. And she had a wide musical horizon, which had a great influence on the work of Wate.
Embed from getty imagesFor many years, the spouse has become a major employee for a man, speaking by producer and co-author of many songs and accompanying her husband on tour. The wife is a person whose opinion in the work of Tom takes into account first of all, although her criticism is often readily.
The couple got married in 1980. Suddenly, for old friends, the musician saw the charm in order to spend the evening in a family circle in a house filled with noise and children's next. Tom threw a drink and became almost no longer for journalists. The spouses have three children - Casey, Kelly and Sullivan, Casey plays on the drums in the Father group. The family lives in Sonoma district, California.
Tom Wait Now
The musician is now continuing to engage in creativity, write songs, give concerts and film. The late role in the filmography of Wates was the hermit of Bob from the tape 2019 "The Dead do not die", filmed by Jim Jarmushe. Shooting partners in the comedy zombie apocalypse became Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, Tilda Suinton and other stars.
In the spring of 2019, the book "Tom Wait Matt Makhurina" was published - a collection of portraits of a musician and a result of 30-year-old cooperation with photographer and illustrator Matthew Makhurin.
Here are more than 150 drawings, pictures, illustrations, digital images, live concert frames of Wates as various characters and repetitions of themselves - visual equivalents of the mysterious worlds caused in his music. Several books are dedicated to the life and work of men, the most famous of which became the "many lives of Tom Wates", written by Patrick Humphree.
The artist is not active on social networks, but on the official website fans can familiarize themselves with his biography, learn the latest news and see the fresh photo. In December 2019, Wait meets the 70th anniversary, while despite the stormy past, remains in good shape. Supported lanky volume (its height is 180 cm), as in his youth, continues to sing songs with his "devilish" voice.
Discography
- 1973 - Closing Time
- 1974 - The Heart Of Saturday Night
- 1975 - NightHawks at the diner
- 1976 - Small Change
- 1977 - Foreign Affairs
- 1978 - Blue Valentine
- 1980 - Heartattack and Vine
- 1983 - SwordFishTrumbones
- 1985 - Rain Dogs
- 1987 - FRANKS WILD YEARS
- 1988 - Big Time
- 1992 - Bone Machine
- 1993 - The Black Rider
- 1999 - Mule Variations
- 2002 - Blood Money
- 2002 - Alice.
- 2004 - Real Gone
- 2006 - Orphans: BraWlers, Bawlers & Bastards
- 2009 - Glitter and Doom Live
- 2011 - Bad AS ME
Filmography
- 1978 - "hellish cuisine"
- 1983 - "Relief"
- 1986 - "Out of Law"
- 1989 - "Mysterious Train"
- 1992 - "Dracula"
- 2003 - "Coffee and cigarettes"
- 2006 - "Suicides: Love Story"
- 2009 - "Imagonarium Dr. Parnassa"
- 2012 - "Seven Psychopaths"
- 2018 - "Basher Skranggs Ballad"
- 2019 - "The dead do not die"