Tom Petty / Biography

Rock singer/guitarist, recording and performing solo as well as leader of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1975 - present).
Daughters Adria and Anna Kim.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 (as a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers).
Teamed up with Bob Dylan, Beatle George Harrison, Jeff Lynne from Electric Light Orchestra and Roy Orbison in the band The Travelling Wilburys.
His birthday (October 20) is also the anniversary of the deaths of Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant, bandmate Steve Gaines and sister Cassie Gaines in a plane crash.
Shares a birthday with Viggo Mortensen and Snoop Dogg.
Was the only blonde member of the Traveling Wilburys.
He has said that he regarded his and the Heartbreakers best work was when they collaborated with Johnny Cash on the legend's album "Unchained." The Heartbreakers would perform on Cash's next two albums after that (which would be his last), but Petty, due to other engagements, was less involved with those.