Rob Thomas

1972

...Robert Kelly Thomas (born February 14, 1972 ) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. H...

Robert Kelly Thomas

... Robert Kelly Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. H...

Little Wonders

...ve Me the Melt Down, This is How a Heart Breaks, Ever the Same, and Little Wonders . Very upbeatsounding, but it's about his wife's autoimmune disease ...

hey man, man

... their struggle to deal with it. Lyrical Tic: Is fond of throwing in hey man, man and variations on that feeling and word in his songs. Protest Song: ...

Fire On the Mountain

... variations on that feeling and word in his songs. Protest Song: Fire On the Mountain , dedicated to Africa and the issues Africa faces as a continent,...

Lonely No More

...ert Thomas. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist, with Lonely No More released in 2005 becoming his biggest solo chart success. In 2004, ...

2005

...o records and performs as a solo artist, with Lonely No More released in 2005 becoming his biggest solo chart success. In 2004, the Songwriters Hall o...

2004

...ely No More released in 2005 becoming his biggest solo chart success. In 2004 , the Songwriters Hall of Fame awarded Thomas its first Hal David Starlig...

marijuana

...small country store and gas station, where she also sold moonshine and marijuana under the counter. He grew up listening to country music and idolized...

I'd Have To be Crazy

...d all that great southern music. Willie Nelson had a song called I'd Have To be Crazy and I always loved the story that he was telling because all the...

Cradlesong

...eople to get too close a look. On the other hand, with the release of Cradlesong , his latest and most personal album, he would like to start opening u...

climb into friends bedrooms

...e was abusive, just like her mother was abusive, he says. Hed climb into friends bedrooms at night to use their showers and sleep in their closets. He...

after high school

...at least one car. When Thomas started playing in local cover bands after high school , as all of his friends started going to college and thinking abou...

Atlantic Records

... his life performing manual labor. After Matchbox Twenty signed to Atlantic Records in 1994, Thomas spent the majority of his twenties as an inescapab...

Robert M. Thomas

... Robert M. Thomas is a pioneering composer, performer, coder, designer, and thinker who has pushed music and sound forward over the past decades like f...

Hans Zimmer

...t pioneer Brian Eno, triphop innovators Massive Attack, film composer Hans Zimmer , singersongwriter Imogen Heap, sound designer Ben Burtt, and the tra...

breakthrough concepts and modes of interaction

...expressiveness and experience. He regularly creates breakthrough concepts and modes of interaction for his audience and collaborators alike. His work ...

over two decades

...Fittingly, the experience earned from over two decades as one of modern musics preeminent songwriter and frontmen empowers him to do so. Ive always be...

eighties songwriters

.... Theres a sensibility to the way I write thats been informed by eighties songwriters , especially. I feel like I grow each year. Hopefully, that trend...

The Great Unknown

...rsts for the New Yorkbased artist. Three years removed since 2015s The Great Unknown , he amassed a career high 60 ideas to be whittled down into the n...

60

...ree years removed since 2015s The Great Unknown, he amassed a career high 60 ideas to be whittled down into the next body of work. All along, there wo...

Butch Walker

...hittled down into the next body of work. All along, there would be no choice but to work with longtime friend Butch Walker behindtheboard as producer....

Landstuhl, Germany

...'s Chip Tooth Smile. An army brat, Rob Thomas was born in 1972 in Landstuhl, Germany . When he was two, his parents divorced, with his mother retaining...

Germany

...ip Tooth Smile. An army brat, Rob Thomas was born in 1972 in Landstuhl, Germany . When he was two, his parents divorced, with his mother retaining cust...

from town to town through the American South

...g his childhood, his mom moved Thomas and his sister from town to town through the American South , usually returning to her mother's home in Lake City...

keyboards

...chor in Orlando. During this period, Thomas began to learn how to play keyboards , picking up guitar not long afterward. Personal problems plagued the ...

addiction

...onal problems plagued the adolescent Thomas. His mother struggled with addiction and her illness had ramifications in his personal life, contributing ...

Robert Kelly Rob Thomas

...Biography Robert Kelly Rob Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is a Germanborn American singer and songwriter. Thomas also records and performs as a solo ...

three

...writer. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy Awards for cowriting and singing on the Santana tripleplatinum h...

1999

...g on the Santana tripleplatinum hit Smooth, on the album Supernatural in 1999 . He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Tom Petty, ...

Supernatural

...g and singing on the Santana tripleplatinum hit Smooth, on the album Supernatural in 1999. He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as...

Landstuhl, West Germany

...uence in the music industry. He was born Robert Kelly Thomas in Landstuhl, West Germany , at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, an army hospital, to hi...

when he was six months old

...on February 14, 1972. Thomas's parents moved back to the U.S. when he was six months old . They divorced when Thomas was two years old. He and his sist...

Orlando, Florida

... was two years old. He and his sister were raised by his mother in Orlando, Florida , and with their grandparents in Turbeville, South Carolina. When h...