Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits 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 began in the folk scene during the 1970s, but his music since the 1980s has reflected the influence of such diverse genres as rock, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk, hip hop and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Per The Wall Street Journal, Waits “has composed a body of work that’s at least comparable to any songwriter’s in pop today. A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden, Mr. Waits creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view. Their stories are accompanied by music that’s unlike any other in pop history.”

7 December 1949

Born on the same birth date (7 December 1949): James Rivière

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Allan B. Calhamer • Benoît Tréluyer • Clarence Nash • Erika Fuchs • James Keach • James Rivière • Pietro Mascagni • Richard Warren Sears • Sara Bareilles • Tino Martinez

Born in the same month (December 1949): Adrian Belew • Bill Buckner • Bill Nighy • Brian Roper (economist) • Christina Onassis • Don Johnson • Jeff Bridges • Jerry Coyne • Jim Flaherty • Joel Brooks • Lenny White • Mickey Thomas (singer) • Nikolaos Sifounakis • Peter Willey • Robert Sternberg