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Tom Morello

Alternative and hard rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist Tom Morello was born on May 30, 1964, in Harlem, New York. He is best known as the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. While he was a teenager, he became involved in both politics and music. At 13, he joined his first band as a singer, while also purchasing his first guitar. By 1982, he devoted his attention to studying the guitar. Influenced by both hard rock and hip-hop, he developed his own distinct style of playing. In the mid-1990s, he formed hard rock band Lock Up. Signing to ...