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Thomas Dale Rapp (b. 8 March 1947 , Bottineau, North Dakota ) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine , the Psychedelic Folk Rock group.

Tom Rapp learned to play guitar at an early age. When living in Minnesota as a child he once came third in a talent contest in Rochester where a certain Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing was fifth. "''The winner was a cute little girl in a red sequined costume who twirled a baton''."

In the early sixties he lived in Melbourne, Florida , where he formed Pearls Before Swine. After nine albums, released under either the band's name or his own between 1967 and 1973, he retired from music in the mid-1970s and, after graduating from Brandeis University , became a successful lawyer.

He re-appeared in 1997 at Terrastock , a Music Festival in Providence, Rhode Island , with his son's band, Shy Camp, and began recording again with 1999 's '' A Journal Of The Plague Year ''. He also performed at Terrastock 6 in April 2006. {Link without Title}

He currently lives in Florida.


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