Tina Weymouth

Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with husband and Talking Heads drummer, Chris Frantz. 2Early life Born in Coronado, California, Weymouth is the daughter of Laura Bouchage and retired US Navy Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth. She has seven siblings, including Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in Weymouth's band Tom Tom Club, and architect Yann Weymouth, the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum. Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side (she is the great-granddaughter of Anatole Le Braz, a Breton writer). At the age of 12, she joined "The Potomac English Hand Bell Ringers", an amateur music group directed by Nancy Tufts, and toured with them. At 14, she started to teach herself the guitar. 2Talking Heads As a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, she met Chris Frantz and David Byrne who later formed a band and were searching for a bass player. She joined them at Frantz's request, and began playing bass. As a bass player she combined the minimalist art-punk bass lines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, funk-inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. Her sound is often very syncopated (i.e., reggae/funk) in feel, combining low fundamental notes with higher flourishes in clipped, staccato rhythm