Tom Bailey (musician)

Tom Bailey
Bailey performing live on the Nocturnal Culture Night festival in 2023
Background information
Birth name	Thomas Alexander Bailey
Born	(1954-01-18) 18 January 1954 (age 70) Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Origin	Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Genres	New wave pop
Occupations	Singer songwriter musician composer record producer
Instruments	Vocals keyboards synthesiser piano guitar bass guitar upright bass harmonica percussion
Years active	1975–present
Labels	Arista Warner Bros.
Formerly of	Thompson Twins Babble International Observer Bailey-Salgado Project
Website	thompsontwinstombailey.co.uk

Thomas Alexander Bailey (born 18 January 1954)^[1] is an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer and record producer.

Bailey came to prominence in the early 1980s as the lead vocalist for the new wave band Thompson Twins, which released five singles that entered the top ten charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s: "Love On Your Side", "We Are Detective", "Hold Me Now", "Doctor! Doctor!", and "You Take Me Up". He was the only member of the band to have formal musical training. From 1994, Bailey was also a member of its later incarnation, Babble, releasing two commercially unsuccessful studio albums. He released his debut solo studio album Science Fiction in 2018.

Bailey currently works in various musical fields including scoring for film. He records and performs dub music under the name International Observer and Indo-fusion music with the Holiwater Project. He also collaborated with astronomer and visual artist José Francisco Salgado as part of the audio-visual ensemble Bailey-Salgado Project (BSP).