톰 웨이츠

소개

톰 웨이츠(영어: Tom Waits, 1949년 12월 7일 ~ )는 미국의 싱어송라이터 겸 배우이다. 그의 가사는 종종 사회의 하층 세계를 다루며, 특유의 깊고 거친 목소리로 전달된다. 그는 1970년대 포크 음악 신에서 활동을 시작했으나, 1980년대 이후의 음악은 록, 재즈, 델타 블루스, 오페라, 보드빌, 카바레, 펑크, 인더스트리얼음악에 가까운 실험적 기법 등 다양한 장르의 영향을 반영하고 있다.

Thomas Alan Waits is an American singer, songwriter, composer and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underbelly 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, jazz, Delta blues, opera, vaudeville, cabaret, funk and experimental techniques verging on industrial music. Jim Fusilli calls him "A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden" who "creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view." His unique voice was described by Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."