TOM RAPP

'Thomas Dale Rapp' (b. 8 March 1947, Bottineau, North Dakota) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine, the psychedelic folk rock group.
Tom Rapp learned to play guitar at an early age. When living in Minnesota as a child he once came third in a talent contest in Rochester where a certain Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing was fifth. "''The winner was a cute little girl in a red sequined costume who twirled a baton''."
In the early sixties he lived in Melbourne, Florida, where he formed Pearls Before Swine. After nine albums, released under either the band's name or his own between 1967 and 1973, he retired from music in the mid-1970s and, after graduating from Brandeis University, became a successful lawyer.
He re-appeared in 1997 at Terrastock, a music festival in Providence, Rhode Island, with his son's band, Shy Camp, and began recording again with 1999's ''A Journal of the Plague Year''. He also performed at Terrastock 6 in April 2006. [1]
He currently lives in Florida.

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★ Pearls Before Swine

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★ Official Tom Rapp / Pearls Before Swine website

★ Tom Rapp bio by Mark Brend