Rapp, Tom
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Name (Latin)
Rapp, Tom
Other forms of name
Rapp, Thomas
Date of birth
1947-03-08
Date of death
2018-02-11
Field of activity
Folk music
Law
Popular music
Popular music--Writing and publishing
Psychedelic rock music
Singing
Occupation
Rock musicians
Singers
Composers
Lawyers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 14, 2018(Tom Rapp, a singer and songwriter with a slight lisp, gentle voice and apocalyptic vision, traits that helped make his band Pearls Before Swine one of the most enduring and eccentric groups of rock music's late-'60s underground scene, died Feb. 11 [2018] at his home in Melbourne, Fla.; he was 70; quit music in 1976 after less than a decade of full-time performing; went on to become a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia; Thomas Dale Rapp was born in Bottineau, N.D., on March 8, 1947; received a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1981 and graduated from law school at the University of Pennsylvania three years later, focusing on discrimination law in a legal career that eventually took him to Florida; eventually returned to music, performing in 1997 with his son's band Shy Camp at the Terrastock music festival in Providence, R.I.; released a solo album, "A Journal of the Plague Year," two years later, recording with the psychedelic-folk duo Damon & Naomi and the Bevis Frond, a British rock group)
- Wikipedia, February 13, 2018:(Thomas Dale "Tom" Rapp (March 8, 1947-February 11, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine, the psychedelic folk rock group of the 1960s and 1970s. He later practiced as a lawyer; Born in Bottineau, North Dakota)
- City of gold, 1971:container (Tom Rapp, vocals) label (Thomas Rapp)