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.

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Dettaglio della persona

Tom Waits

Filmografia

I ragazzi della 56ª strada

Rusty il selvaggio

Coffee and Cigarettes

Licorice Pizza

Daunbailò

America oggi

Fino alla fine del mondo

La tigre e la neve

Codice Genesi

Parnassus - L'uomo che voleva ingannare il diavolo

Wristcutters - Una storia d'amore

Mystery Men

Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30

Ironweed

Tom Waits: Big Time

Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace

Candy Mountain

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Sognando Manhattan

Giocando nei campi del Signore

Twixt

7 psicopatici

Cold Feet - Piedi freddi

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]

Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin

Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit

Tom Waits - One Star Shining : The First Decade

Tom Waits: Under Review

Tom Waits: No Visitors After Midnight

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur

Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna

Taverna paradiso

Domino

Wildwood - I segreti del bosco proibito

John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone

Star.Wav

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

The Laughing Heart

Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience

Cotton Club

Robert Wilson – Die Schönheit des Geheimnisvollen

Il grande inganno

Keith Richards: Under the Influence

La leggenda del re pescatore

Father Mother Sister Brother

Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers

This Is Sparklehorse

Un sogno lungo un giorno

Mystery train: martedì notte a Memphis

Tom Waits for No One

Old Man & the Gun

Coffee and Cigarettes III

Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox

Bukowski: Born Into This

La ballata di Buster Scruggs

The Stone Boy

Poetry in Motion

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country

I morti non muoiono

The Moon’s Milk

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Wolfen - La belva immortale

Motherless Brooklyn - I segreti di una città

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

Dracula di Bram Stoker

The Monster of Nix

Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight

Human Nature in Eleven Parts

Wild Horse Nine

Tom Waits: Elephant Beer Blues - Songs After Closing Time

Tom Waits - Live at Premio Tenco in Sanremo Italy

Tom Waits - Live On The Tube

Greasy Lake

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