Tommy Tokyo

Tommy Tokyo was a Norwegian alternative singer/songwriter whose second album, Smear Your Smiles Back On, catapulted him to national fame, garnering not only critical accolades but Top Ten commercial success. Born Tommy Lorange Ottosen on August 26, 1971, and hailing from Fredrikstad, Norway, he began playing the guitar in 1995 and embarked on a musical career relatively late in life. In 1999 he formed the band Piggyback and proceeded to release an EP, Knucklesandwich (2000), and some promotional singles. Not much came of his efforts with Piggyback, however, and in 2002 he made...