Tommy Elskes

Tommy Elskes was created in Albuquerque and began singing in choirs and vocal groupings in senior high school. After graduation, he transferred to LA to create it being a musician and finished up composing music for The Flintstones cartoons. He do that for the year and came back to Albuquerque, ultimately shifting to Kansas, where he performed music just part-time. Then joined a music group in Vail, CO, for some time before settling in Austin in 1976 and developing the music group Kiwi, which proved helpful thoroughly there for another five years. Once they split up in 1981, Elskes sang advertisements jingles. By 1988, he was executing solo, resulting in the documenting of his first record, Ruler of Dixie, for the tiny Amazing Information label. Then transferred to Telluride, CO, and spent five years as artist-in-residence on the Peaks Resort. In nov 1999, he transferred to New Orleans and in 2000, he finally shipped a second record, Bohemia.