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Fri 26.6. – Thu 9.7.
Filmstaden, Stockholm
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Father Mother Sister Brother
Film screening at Filmstaden in Stockholm.
Tom Waits
About
Tom Waits (born December 7, 1949, in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor whose career spans more than five decades. Starting out in the jazz-inflected bars of Los Angeles in the early 1970s, he gradually built one of rock's most singular voices - literally and figuratively - moving through blues, experimental music and vaudeville while writing songs that chronicle the lives of drifters, barflies and the forgotten. He is a two-time Grammy winner, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (class of 2011), and appears on Rolling Stone's lists of the 100 Greatest Singers and 100 Greatest Songwriters.
1.36M
Spotify monthly listeners
86.9M
Streams of top Spotify track 'I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You'
2.25M
Facebook page likes
2
Grammy Awards won
What's new
- 2026-04
Tom Waits released 'Boots on the Ground' with Massive Attack on April 16, 2026 - his first original music in 15 years since the 2011 album Bad as Me.
- 2026-04
Proceeds from the 'Boots on the Ground' 12-inch vinyl are being donated to the ACLU and the Immigrant Defense Project, with Waits and Kathleen Brennan also supporting NAMI and VIDAS.
- 2026-03
Waits is set to contribute to the Shane MacGowan tribute album Century Paddy - The Songs Of Shane MacGowan.
- 2025-10
The 50th anniversary reissue of Waits' 1975 live album Nighthawks at the Diner was announced, with a pre-order campaign.
- 2024-08
Waits released 'Get Behind the Mule (Spiritual)', a stripped-down Wurlitzer-accompanied version of the track, to mark the 25th anniversary of Mule Variations.
Tracks
Tom Traubert's BluesFrom Small Change (1976), one of his most enduring piano ballads.
Downtown TrainFrom Rain Dogs (1985); later covered to hit status by Rod Stewart.
Hold OnFrom Grammy-winning Mule Variations (1999); 27M+ Spotify streams.
I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With YouDebut album Closing Time (1973); his most-streamed track on Spotify with 86M+ streams.
Boots on the Ground2026 collaboration with Massive Attack; his first new original music in 15 years.
- Born:
- 7 December 1949 (76 years)
- Place of birth:
- Pomona, California, USA
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