Tina Weymouth
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Weymouth at the Austin Music Awards, SXSW festival, 2010
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Martina Michèle Weymouth |
| Born |
November 22, 1950 Coronado, California, U.S. |
| Genres | New wave, art rock, funk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, author |
| Instruments | Vocals, bass, synthesizer, guitar |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | EMI, Sire |
| Associated acts | Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Gorillaz |
| Website | www |
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Höfner 500/2 Club Bass Veillette-Citron Standard Bass Fender Swinger Fender Mustang Bass |
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Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with husband and Talking Heads drummer, Chris Frantz.
Born in Coronado, California, Weymouth is the daughter of retired US Navy Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth and his wife Laura Bouchage. She has seven siblings, including Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in Weymouth's band, Tom Tom Club, and architect Yann Weymouth, the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum. Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side (she is the great-granddaughter of Anatole Le Braz, a Breton writer). She was a cheerleader in high school. As a bass guitarist, she combined the minimalist art-punk bass lines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, funk-inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. Her sound is often very syncopated (i.e. reggae/funk) in feel, combining low fundamental notes with higher flourishes in clipped, staccato rhythms. She joined Talking Heads as bass guitarist at the request of her boyfriend of the time, Chris Frantz.
Full members of the Compass Point All Stars, Weymouth and Frantz formed the Tom Tom Club in 1980, which kept them busy during a fairly long hiatus in Talking Heads activity. When it became obvious that Talking Heads frontman David Byrne had no interest in another Talking Heads album, Weymouth, Frantz, and Jerry Harrison reunited without him for a single album called No Talking, Just Head under the name "The Heads" in 1996, featuring a rotating cast of vocalists. Weymouth has been critical of Byrne, describing him as "a man incapable of returning friendship."
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