How old is tom jones

According to TheRichest. They had a local following in South Wales, and they recorded tracks with producer Joe Meek, but they had little success. He became Tom's manager, took him to London, and changed his name to Tom Jones to exploit the success of the movie of the same name.

See more More from Tom Jones. See more Must Read on Smooth. See more Latest Music News. Tina Turner. Elton John. The majority of this would have stemmed from the millioin records he has sold in his lengthy career, though he is also thought to earn a nice amount from ITV for his role as head judge on The Voice. The couple had one son, Mark Woodward , who was born in Linda stood by Tom throughout their marriage despite the lothario enjoying a string of affairs and admitting to sleeping with women at the height of his fame.

Linda was crippled with agoraphobia , a fear of going outside, in later life and friends say the private woman feared being gossiped about. Over the course of their near-six decades of marriage, Tom and Melinda had one son, Mark Woodward, who was born in In October , while on tour in the US, Tom had a brief relationship with model Katherine Berkery, who then discovered she was pregnant. After a legal battle that included DNA testing, a United States court ruled two years later that Tom in fact was the boy's father.

Tom remained adamant that the court findings were false until , where he conceded they were true. We have estimated Tom Jones's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. He and Shirley Bassey are the only two Welsh artists to have sung title songs from the James Bond series of movies, as of Won a Brit Award for Best Male Artist in for the first time in more than 30 years of his music career. Elvis Presley was a frequent guest at Jones' Las Vegas shows in the s.

In one show, Presley came to the stage, took the microphone from Jones and made some karate moves for the audience. Later Jones and Presley met a couple of times in Las Vegas. His father was of English descent and his mother was of Welsh and English ancestry.

He began singing at an early age in church and in the school choir. Left school at 16 and was married, having a son a year later. He brought in money for his family from an assortment of jobs, singing in pubs at night. By , he was playing regularly with his own group in the demanding atmosphere of working mens clubs.

Gordon Mills, a performer who had branched out into songwriting and management went to see him. Tom was only 16 years old when he became a father for the first time.