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Thomas Alan Waits, 汤姆·威兹
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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1949-12-07
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 9.9
- info Birth Place Pomona, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Tom Waits
7.3
The Outsiders
1983-03-25
7
Rumble Fish
1983-10-09
7
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004-03-12
7
Licorice Pizza
2021-11-26
7.4
Down by Law
1986-09-20
7.3
Short Cuts
1993-09-05
6.9
Until the End of the World
1991-09-12
6.8
The Tiger and the Snow
2005-10-14
6.8
The Book of Eli
2010-01-14
6.4
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009-10-01
6.9
Wristcutters: A Love Story
2007-10-19
5.8
Mystery Men
1999-08-06
0
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night 30
2017-02-24
6.3
Ironweed
1987-12-18
6.8
Big Time
1988-12-30
0
Tom Waits at Theatre le Palace
1980-12-19
5.8
Candy Mountain
1988-01-20
7.4
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988-01-03
5.8
Queens Logic
1991-02-01
6.3
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
1991-12-06
5.1
Twixt
2011-09-10
6.8
Seven Psychopaths
2012-10-12
3.8
Cold Feet
1989-05-19
6
A Brief History of John Baldessari
2012-03-10
3.8
Tom Waits - Burma Shave [Live Concert]
2006-01-01
3.8
Tom Waits: Romeo Bleeding - Live from Austin
2009-02-06
3.8
Tom Waits - Bridge School Benefit
1999-10-30
6.5
Tom Waits - One Star Shining : The First Decade
4
Tom Waits: Under Review
2008-05-13
3.8
Tom Waits - No Visitors After Midnight
1979-07-27
6.8
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008-05-11
7
Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna
1978-01-01
5.8
Paradise Alley
1978-09-22
6
Domino
2005-10-14
0
Wildwood
0
John Lurie: A Lounge Lizard Alone
1990-01-01
0
Star.Wav
7
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1989-11-05
4
The Laughing Heart
2013-01-01
0
Tom Waits: Glitter and Doom Concert Experience
2024-01-16
6.5
The Cotton Club
1984-12-14
0
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022-01-16
5.9
The Two Jakes
1990-08-10
6.7
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
2015-09-18
7.3
The Fisher King
1991-09-20
0
Father Mother Sister Brother
0
Tom Waits: VH1 Storytellers
1999-04-01
7
This Is Sparklehorse
2016-04-02
5.8
One from the Heart
1982-02-11
7.3
Mystery Train
1989-09-06
5
Tom Waits for No One
1979-01-01
6.5
The Old Man & the Gun
2018-09-27
7
Coffee and Cigarettes III
1997-04-11
6.8
Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox
2017-02-19
6.9
Bukowski: Born Into This
2003-01-18
7.2
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018-11-09
6.8
The Stone Boy
1984-04-04
7
Poetry in Motion
1982-09-17
6
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993-03-26
5.5
The Dead Don't Die
2019-05-15
0
The Moon’s Milk
2018-07-23
5.4
The Absence of Eden
2024-04-12
0
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990-12-01
0
Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77
1977-04-18
5.9
Wolfen
1981-07-24
6.8
Motherless Brooklyn
2019-10-31
8
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982-08-14
7.5
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992-11-13
7
The Monster of Nix
2011-06-01
7.2
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997-09-07
6.4
The Daily Show
1996-07-22
7.1
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993-09-13
6.5
Ultra City Smiths
2021-09-13
6
Austin City Limits
1975-01-01
7
Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11
4.9
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
7.4
Fishing with John
1991-11-20
8.1
The Simpsons
1989-12-17
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8.1
Night on Earth
1991-12-12
8.1
The Last Castle
2001-10-19
8.1
La fine della notte
1989-09-30
8.1
The Fallen
2010-01-01
8.1
Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
2001-04-24
8.1
To Live and to Die in Samarkand
2007-01-01
8.1
La première journée de Nicolas
1984-01-01
8.1
Tom Waits: Rockpalast '77
1977-04-18
8.1
Bunny
1998-11-02
8.1
Bunny
1998-11-02
8.1
Down by Law
1986-09-20
8.1
One from the Heart
1982-02-11
8.1
Tom Waits for No One
1979-01-01
8.1
The Black Rider
1990-06-12
8.1
Night on Earth
1991-12-12
8.1
Rita Ritter
1984-02-25
8.1
Streetwise
1984-12-07
8.1
Big Time
1988-12-30