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Born in Coronado, California, Weymouth is the daughter of Laura Bouchage and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth (1917–2020). The third of eight children, her siblings include Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in Tina's band Tom Tom Club, and architect Yann Weymouth, the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida.
Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth and as a side project from Talking Heads. [3] Their best known songs include the UK top 10 hit "Wordy Rappinghood" and the US top 40 hit "Genius of Love", both from their 1981 debut album, and a cover of The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" that reached the UK top 30.
Weymouth is the fifth member of her family to have held the publisher position. [5] On her father's side Weymouth is a niece of Tina Weymouth, a former member of the band Talking Heads. [6] Her paternal grandfather is Admiral Ralph Weymouth. One of her paternal ancestors is the Breton writer Anatole Le Braz. [20]
The core four members of Talking Heads — vocalist and guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison — split rather ...
Tina Weymouth and her husband Chris Frantz formed the side project Tom Tom Club. In December 1991, Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded. [3] Frantz said he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the Los Angeles Times, and said: "As far as we're concerned, the band never really broke up. David just decided to leave."
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He is the older brother of Tina Weymouth, the bassist for the art-rock band Talking Heads from 1974 to 1991, [11] the son of Ralph Weymouth and the great-grandson of Anatole Le Braz. [12] His mother was an immigrant from France of Breton descent and his father was American.