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"Tina Weymouth Tribute Film, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame Martina Michèle Weymouth ( / ˈ w eɪ m ə θ / WAY -məth ; born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club , which she co-founded with her husband, Talking ...
Tina Weymouth and her husband Chris Frantz formed the side project Tom Tom Club. In December 1991, Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded. [6] Frantz said he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the Los Angeles Times, and said: "As far as we're concerned, the band never really broke up. David just decided to leave."
Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and as a side project from Talking Heads. [3] Their best known songs include the UK top 10 hit "Wordy Rappinghood" and the US top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from their 1981 debut album, and a cover of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" that reached the UK top 30.
He studied in the early 1970s at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he met both David Byrne and Tina Weymouth. Byrne and Frantz formed a band called the Artistics, which went on to become Talking Heads, in 1973. Weymouth, then Frantz's girlfriend, joined the band in 1975 after they had moved to New York City. Frantz and Weymouth were ...
The core four members of Talking Heads — vocalist and guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison — split rather ...
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On the personal front, she married husband Mark Fluent, with whom she shares two children, in 2001. Tina Yothers (Jennifer Keaton) Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
More Songs About Buildings and Food is the second studio album by the American rock band Talking Heads, released on July 14, 1978, by Sire Records.It was the first of three albums produced by collaborator Brian Eno, and saw the band move toward an increasingly danceable style, crossing singer David Byrne's unusual delivery with new emphasis on the rhythm section composed of bassist Tina ...