Tom Jones Biography

Tom Jones Profile Biography – Biographyzone.com. Sir Tom Jones, OBE, born Thomas Jones Woodward, (Pontypridd, June 7, 1940) is a pop singer from Wales. At sixteen he married and had a child, long before becoming a pop idol. Despite his frequent and well-publicized extramarital affairs (including a romance with former Miss World Marjorie Wallace, 1973), he remains married, and is regarded as a family man. Jones lived in the U.S., but is often seen visiting his homeland of Wales.

Tom Jones Career History

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Birth name	Thomas John Woodward
Also known as	Tom Jones
Born	7 June 1940 (1940-06-07) (age 70) Treforest, Pontypridd, Wales
Genres	Pop, blues, blue-eyed soul
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, actor
Years active	1963–present
Labels	Tower Records (record label), Columbia, Decca, Parrot, Epic, Jive,

Tom rose to fame during the ’60s, and after several successes in the UK, became a singer in Las Vegas casinos. Among its main achievements of early career are:

• It’s Not Unusual (1965)
• What’s New Pussycat? “, composed by Burt Bacharach (1965)
• Thunderball, theme of the movie namesake of James Bond (1966)
• The Green, Green Grass of Home (1966), his most successful compact, which then became associated with Wales, although it was inspired by the U.S.
• I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (1967)
• Delilah (1968)
• Can not Help Yourself (1968)
• Without Love (1969)
• She’s A Lady (1971)

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Jones’s career has stagnated since then, and could only breathe new life in 1987 with the release of “The Boy From Nowhere “. Thereafter he went on to record with a younger generation of musicians.

The penultimate album from Jones, Reload, launched in 2000, became the biggest hit of his career, had versions of other artists, recorded duets with them, using their producers and recording methods. Then came Mr.Jones, launched in 2002, and the following year Tom was awarded a Brit Award for his contribution to music. Tom is who sings the opening theme cartoon series Duck Dodgers.

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