Tina Weymouth

About Tina Weymouth

Tina Weymouth is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with her husband, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz. In 2002, Weymouth was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads.

As a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, she met Chris Frantz and David Byrne, who formed a band called the Talking Heads. She began dating Frantz and served as the band's driver. After graduation, the three of them moved to New York City. Since Byrne and Frantz were unable to find a suitable bass guitar player she joined them at the latter's request and began learning and playing the instrument. The band became mainstays in the New York City punk rock scene that formed around the nightclub CBGB alongside other bands like the Ramones, Television, Blondie, the Patti Smith Group and the Dead Boys.

Talking Heads recorded four critically acclaimed albums between 1977 and 1980. They took a short break in 1981 following the release of their classic album Remain In Light, during which the band members pursued outside projects. Weymouth and Frantz formed the playful and funky Tom Tom Club, featuring Weymouth on lead vocals and her sisters on backing vocals. The album produced two popular singles, "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love," the infectious hook of which has been sampled by countless other musicians, most notably Mariah Carey on her number one single "Fantasy."

When Talking Heads reconvened following their brief break, they recorded the album Speaking In Tongues, which produced their highest charting single "Burning Down the House." Several shows during the band's tour promoting Speaking In Tongue#s were filmed for Jonathan Demme's film Stop Making Sense, largely considered to be the best concert documentary of all time.

Talking Heads remained a popular band for the remainder of the 1980s, producing further hit singles like "And She Was," "Road To Nowhere," "Wild Wild Life" and "(Nothing But) Flowers." They split up in the early 1990s, after which Weymouth and Frantz devoted most of their efforts to Tom Tom Club.