Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth (born on November 22, 1950 in Coronado, California) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the influential New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club (co-founded with Talking Heads drummer and husband Chris Frantz).
Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. In her youth, Weymouth was a cheerleader. A bass guitarist, she combined the minimalist art-punk...
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Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth (born on November 22, 1950 in Coronado, California) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the influential New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club (co-founded with Talking Heads drummer and husband Chris Frantz).
Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. In her youth, Weymouth was a cheerleader. A bass guitarist, she combined the minimalist art-punk basslines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, funk-inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. Her sound is often very funky in feel, combining low fundamental notes with higher flourishes in clipped, staccato rhythms. Weymouth joined Talking Heads as bass guitarist at the request of then-boyfriend Chris Frantz, and, in fact, according to the liner notes for the Talking Heads collection "Sand in the Vaseline", learned to play the bass guitar for this reason.
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