Biography
Tom Waits was born in Pomona, California, in 1949 and gave his first paid performance in 1970 at a folk club in San Diego. After his debut album “Closing Time” (1973), he developed an experimental style with unusual instruments and noises on “Swordfishtrombones” (1983) and “Rain Dogs” (1985); since “Rain Dogs”, Kathleen Brennan has co-written almost all of his songs. His musical “Frank’s Wild Years” opened in 1986 with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, with Waits himself playing the lead character Frank. With the director Robert Wilson he created the music-theatre works “The Black Rider” (1990, text by William S. Burroughs) and “Alice” (1992), both premiered at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, and “Woyzeck” after Georg Büchner (2000, Betty Nansen Teatret, Copenhagen). As an actor he appeared in films including Jim Jarmusch’s “Down by Law” and Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts”. He won Grammys for the albums “Bone Machine” and “Mule Variations” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
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