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Tom Jones became one of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the British Invasion. Since the mid'60s, Jones has sung nearly every form of popular music pop, rock, show tunes, country, dance, and techno, he's sung it all. His actual style a fullthroated, robust baritone that had little regard for nuance and subtlety never changed, he just sang over different backing tracks.
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Biography: Tom Jones became one of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the British Invasion. Since the mid-'60s, Jones has sung nearly every form of popular music -- pop, rock, show tunes, country, dance, and techno, he's sung it all. His actual style -- a full-throated, robust baritone that had little regard ...Read full biography
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Tom has a fundamental interest in a wide range of musical expression. He is first and foremost a rocker with a true rhythm and blues soul. In his youth, he was a "Teddy-Boy", a rebel, with not much on his mind but music and sex. His young style and attitude was dominated by the birth of rock 'n' roll. But he had ears and a natural ability that could appreciate and understand the quickly burgeoning styles of popular music. As much time as he spent listening to American and British radio he would spend in the pubs, drinking and singing.
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Tom — looking like “200 pounds of natural man” — attended the EMI Grammy© party in LA last night. (EMI is a British music company, one of the so-called “big four” in the industry.) Doesn’t he look great like this?
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