Tommy Scott Hooper is a

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songwriter and musician. He was a founding member of the

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punk band Gentlemen of Horror, and also of

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

, one of the most popular Canadian rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When singer/guitarist Kevin Kane left The Grapes of Wrath in 1992, Hooper and the rest of the band went on to become

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. Hooper and Kane later reunited as The Grapes of Wrath in 1998 and released an album called ''

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'' in 2000. He is the brother of drummer and Grapes of Wrath bandmate Chris Hooper. Hooper later released a solo album, ''The Unexplored Cosmos'', in 2002. In 2014, he released the album ''Basement Suite'' and in 2015, he released album "Tom's Journey through the solar system". He is married to ex- Lava Hay singer songwriter

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, with whom he has two children.

Discography

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Ginger Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices ...

Solo artist

The Hooper Family

Tom Hooper & The Angry Hippies

References

External links

Now and Again: A Grapes of Wrath FansiteTom Hooper's myspace pageGentleman of Horror website
Canadian rock singers Canadian male songwriters Canadian male singers Year of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Kelowna Living people Canadian folk rock musicians {{Canada-singer-stub