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Growing up in the Hollywood Hills, Tommy learned both guitar and piano at the early age of 10, but it wasn't until his days as a music major at Los Angeles City College that he began writing songs. Inspired by the big new wave movement at the time, a series of free concerts at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre during the summer of 1980 with artists like Micheal Des Barres, Jamie Sheriff, and Oingo Boingo was the catalyst that made Tommy pick up guitar and pen. Throughout the '80's and early '90's, Tommy wrote hundreds of songs and performed through his band INNOCENT BYSTANDER, which had several incarnations during the years, recording and performing at famous Hollywood nightclubs like the Roxy and the Whisky on the fabulous Sunset Strip. In 1992, he recorded a solo album called "Ghosts In The Firehouse," on which he played every single instrument. Unfortunately, the album was never released due to Tommy's continuing alcohol and drug addictions. After 17 years of alcoholism, in 1995, he hit rock bottom with an arrest for grand theft auto. While in jail, he had a deeply moving spiritual experience, and emerged six months later a new and sober man, and has remained so to this day. Believing that his story could be an inspiration to others, he spent the time period of 1996 to 2000 creating Christian based music specifically designed to minister to sufferers of alcohol and drug addictions. During that time, he wrote three Christian rock operas that were all performed to standing-room only audiences. Many addicts made pledges of sobriety immediately following the shows. In 2005, Tommy decided to get back to the musical roots that he loved most, and developed a brand new sound mixing hip-hop and techno beats and patterns with traditional electric guitar and vocals. He built a 24-track digital home studio and released a self-produced CD called "Fairly Twisted Logic." Besides working in the studio and performing live, he is currently acting as Music Supervisor for a documentary by Florence Ren Figueroa called UNDER ONE SKY. Tommy hopes to eventually produce music and write songs for other motion pictures.

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