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"Thomas Alan Waits" (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic 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.' With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. Waits has also worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor ....more

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Tom Waits Return to the Big Screen in Domino

Dec 17, 2004, 1:14 GMT

Tom Waits has made an unexpected return to film with a small role (as a wandering soothsayer) in the Tony Scott directed Domino. ... more

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