Tom chaplin biography
Tom Chaplin
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Chaplin with Keane, performing at Glastonbury in 2024 | |
| Birth name | Thomas Oliver Chaplin |
| Born | (1979-03-08) 8 March 1979 (age 45) Hastings, East Sussex, England |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
Musical artist
Thomas Oliver Chaplin (born 8 March 1979) is an English musician, best known as the co-founder and lead singer of the British alternative rock band Keane.
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Early life
Thomas Oliver Chaplin was born in Hastings, East Sussex, to Sally and David Chaplin OBE, a month apart from future bandmate Tim Rice-Oxley's brother, also called Tom. Their mothers became friends and he started a friendship with the two brothers that endures today.
Chaplin's father was headmaster of Vinehall School in Robertsbridge, so both friends were schooled there along with Richard Hughes, who would later be their bandmate.
With Rice-Oxley and Hughes, Chaplin then attended Tonbridge School. Studying there, they met Dominic Tom Chaplin facts for kids - Kids encyclopedia TUV