tommy lee

Lee was born Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962, in Athens, Greece, to father David Lee Thomas Bass, an American U.S. Army sergeant, and mother Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou (Greek: Basilike Papademetriou), an actress on the 1957 Miss Greece beauty contest. He is the younger brother of Athena who is a drummer. Lee was just two years old [4] when his father took his family to the United States. Lee received his first drum sticks at the age of four and his first full-size drum kit when he was an adolescent. Lee resigned from high school to pursue a career in music starting with Suite 19, a L.A.-based group that was a club. When he was a teenager the band played Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Kiss, AC/DC and Sweet. John Bonham and Tommy Aldridge were his most significant drumming influences.