tommy lee

Lee was born Thomas Lee Bass October 3 1962 in Athens to David Lee Thomas Bass, an American U.S. Army sergeant and Vassiliki Papadimitriou, a contestant at the 1957 Miss Greece beauty pageant (Greek: Basilike Papademetriou). Athena is his older sister. She is also a drummer. Lee was only two years old when his father accompanied his family on a trip to the United States. Lee received his first drum sticks at age four and his first full-size drum kit as an teen. Lee dropped out from high school in order to pursue music as a career and began with Suite 19, a L.A.-based group that was a club. He listened to Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick while a teen. John Bonham and Tommy Aldridge were his most significant drumming influences.