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Thomas Matthew DeLonge is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band Blink-182 across three stints. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Angels & Airwaves, which he formed in 2005 after his first departure from Blink-182. DeLonge is noted for his distinctive nasal singing voice.
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entertainment · American rock musician and songwriter (born 1975) · guitarist · singer · songwriter · singer-songwriter · musician · composer · actor · record producer · film director · film producer · also Tom DeLonge, Thomas Matthew DeLonge, Thomas DeLonge, Ava DeLonge, Tom delong, Tom Matthew DeLonge
Born 13 December 1975 · Q4270
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It’s really hard to make [singing] sound good when you’re not even doing it right to begin with, you know?
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“The tempo was slower, the melodies were written differently. And then, rather than nasally staccato, it became more like [a] violin, more like a stringed instrument. The notes flow together. And then it came naturally to me. [...] It’s the only way I know how to sing now.”
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95.9 The Rat: Tom DeLonge Rejoins Blink-182 After 7-Year Absence, Band Releases New Music and Completes 3 Tours
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Angels & Airwaves’ Tom DeLonge
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Tom DeLonge: ‘Have the Balls to Fix Your Dog!’
Public attention spiked: 3,998 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 1,250, with 1 article edits. Coverage that week: “Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge Once Got So High at a Show They Wanted to Go Home” (People.com).
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Yahoo: Travis Barker Recalls He and Tom Delonge Getting ‘Too High’ With Cypress Hill
People.com: Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge Once Got So High at a Show They Wanted to Go Home
shortlist.com: Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge on UFOs, Bigfoot, and his debut film Monsters of California
Consequence of Sound: Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge Got So High with Cypress Hill That They Wanted to Go Home
RockFM: Travis Barker confirma que Blink-182 ya está trabajando en su próximo álbum junto a Tom DeLonge y Mark Hoppus
In several colors: Surf Green, Olympic White, Shell Pink, and Shoreline Gold
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Uproxx: Tom DeLonge Was Mentioned During The Congressional UFO Hearing And He’s Thrilled: ‘Remember That We Changed The World’
Yahoo: It’s official: the Fender Tom DeLonge Stratocaster is coming back – with one neat twist
Fender reissued the signature model in a limited edition run
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Page Six: Tom DeLonge thanks Matt Skiba for keeping Blink-182 ‘thriving’ during his absence
People: Tom DeLonge Pays Tribute to Blink-182 Fill-in Matt Skiba as Band Releases New Single: 'Thank You'
loudwire: Tom DeLonge Thanks Matt Skiba for Keeping Blink-182 Alive During His Absence
Blink-182 confirmed DeLonge's official return to the group after an eight-year hiatus, and announced that there would be an album with him in the near future
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Alternative Press: Tom DeLonge and blink-182 will play together again when the time is right
To The Stars released an animated narrative (by DeLonge) of his children's book, Who Here Knows Who Took My Clothes
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And release a new album two years later with Lifeforms (2021)
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“It’s really hard to make [singing] sound good when you’re not even doing it right to begin with, you know?”
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The company produced the History Channel television show Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation, about the USS Nimitz UFO incident, which also features DeLonge
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Merged into a larger To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences
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DeLonge released his first solo album—an eight-song collection of Blink-182 demos and more, titled To the Stars
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Released album “To the Stars… Demos, Odds and Ends”.
DeLonge once again departed from Blink-182 before returning a second time in 2022
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DeLonge founded an entertainment company called To The Stars, Inc
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Co-directed the animated short film Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker
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That he was pondering a "plan B", whereby musical acts could monetize other aspects of their creative portfolio—posters, books, VIP tickets, limited-edition releases—given the challenges of contracts offered by major mus
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DeLonge shared an article on Twitter which purported that the Smithsonian Institution had admitted to destroying thousands of skeletons belonging to giant humans in the early 1900s; the article was published by World Dai
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DeLonge launched Strange Times, a website devoted to extraterrestrial life, paranormal activity, cryptozoology, and conspiracy theories
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Around the time that Blink-182 decided to part ways
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And their second, I-Empire, followed in 2007
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“the greatest rock and roll revolution for this generation”
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DeLonge altered his equipment setup for his work in Angels & Airwaves, pairing Vox AC30H2s and Fender '65 Twin Reverbs, and using less distortion
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After his first departure from Blink-182
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To record their fifth studio album, infusing experimentalist elements into their usual pop punk sound, inspired by lifestyle changes (the band members all became fathers before the album was released) and side projects
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DeLonge felt an "itch to do something where he didn't feel locked in to what Blink was", and channeled his chronic back pain (a herniated disc) and resulting frustration into Box Car Racer (2002), a post-hardcore album t
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During the recording and touring of the eponymous album by DeLonge's side project Box Car Racer, he began using a Gibson ES-335
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DeLonge and Hoppus, together with childhood friend Dylan Anderson, established the clothing brand, Atticus Clothing
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Began to use Gibson Les Pauls with a Seymour Duncan Invader at the bridge
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And the group achieved widespread success with their third album, Enema of the State (1999), which featured three hit singles; it sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and went quadruple-platinum in the U
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DeLonge began dating Jennifer Jenkins, whom he had known since high school
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The son of mortgage broker, Constance (née Lovell), and oil company executive Thomas Lyon DeLonge
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Born 1975-12-13.
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