Tom Jones real name is Sir Thomas Jones Woodward who was born in 1940. He is a Welsh singer and he is known for the stage name of Tom Jones. He has a career of over six decades. He was a vocalist in many top hits of 1960s. He had regular touring and appearance in the city of Las Vegas and he has a career comeback when he was coaching at The Voice of UK in 2012 until 2015.
He has played in different range and it included gospel, soul, dance, country, show tunes, R&B, rock and pop. He was called by New York Times as musical shape shifter and he can slide easily from the soulful rasp and to pop croon while he can have a husky or a pretty voice as he wishes. He has sold more than 100 million records and has thirty six songs in Top 40 hits in UK and 19 in United States and they include Sex Bomb, Kiss, She’s a Lady, Green , Green Grass of Home, Delilah, What’s New Pussycat and It’s Not Unusual.
He was given a Grammy Award in the category or Best New Artist of 1966. He got MTV Video Music Award of 1989, two Brit Awards for Best British male of 2000 and Outstanding Contributor to Music award of 2003. He got the award of OBE in the year 1999 and in 2006; he became knighted for his services in music industry by Queen Elizabeth.
In his biography, Tom Jones was born in 57 Kingsland Terrace in Treforest in Ponypridd in the Glamorgan in South Wales. The parents are Thomas Woodward who was a coal miner and his mother is Freda Jones. He went to Wood Road Infants School and to Wood Road Junior before going to Pontypridd Central Secondary Modern School. He started to sing when he was still too young. He was singing at the family gatherings, in school choir and at the weddings. While in school, he was not interested in the sports or school but he got the confidence when he was signing. When he was 12 years, he spent 2 years in bed after being diagnosed by tuberculosis, during that time, he spent time listening to music and drawing.
Tom Jones got married to melinda trenchard born in 1940. They got married in 1957 until the time that his wife died in 2016 even with many infidelities of Tom Jones that were publicized. The two had a son called Mark Woodward. He said that sometime he had sex with over 250 groupies in a year. He had relationship with well known women like Charlotte Laws, Mary Wilson, Cassandra Peterson and Marjorie Wallace. He has written an autobiography called Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography and it got published by Michael Joseph. His wife died because of cancer. He has a net worth of 250 million dollars.
| Birth Date: | 7 Jun, 1940 |
| Age: | 79 yrs |
| Occupations: | Singer Actor |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Birth Place: | Pontypridd |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | Welsh singer |
| Spouse: | Linda Woodward [M. 1957] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 300 million |
