Tommy Sands

Tommy Sands was born on Aug 27, 1937 in USA. Tommy Sands's big-screen debut came with The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show - Season 2 directed by Bud Yorkin in 1957, strarring Self - Singer. Tommy Sands is known for The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro, Sally Hawkins stars as Elisa Esposito and Michael Shannon as Richard Strickland. The upcoming new movie Tommy Sands plays is The Shape of Water which will be released on Dec 22, 2017.

Always a country music fan, Tommy Sands' mother gave him a guitar for Christmas when he was seven. He taught himself to play and, at age eight, got a job at radio station KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana, performing twice a week. Later, he and his mother moved to Houston where, in 1951, he cut his first record for Freedom Records. By 1952, Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, signed Sands with RCA Records, where he recorded seven forgettable songs between 1953 and 1955. In January of 1957, he landed the lead in Kraft Television Theatre: The Singin' Idol (1957), an episode of Kraft Television Theatre (1947). A song he sang in that production, "Teenage Crush", shot to #3 on the Billboard and Cashbox charts, and Sands' career as a teen idol was off and running. He sang the Oscar-nominated song, "Friendly Persuasion", at the 1957 Academy Award ceremonies and, the next year, played the lead in a thinly-disguised biography of his career, L'idole qui chante (1958). Several years later, he appeared with his former father-in-law, Frank Sinatra (he had married Sinatra's daughter Nancy Sinatra), in L'île des braves (1965). Sands later moved to Hawaii, where he had a nightclub and a clothing business. He sang in a rock festival in England in 1990.