11 Facts About Tom Hooker

Tom Hooker or Thomas Barbey was born on Thomas Beecher Hooker on November 18,1957 and is an American singer and photographer.

Tom Hooker was the voice and one of the songwriters behind most songs for popular Italo disco artist Den Harrow.

Barbey, best known as Tom Hooker, was brought to Europe when he was six months old.

Tom Hooker had his first major success in 1986 with "Looking for Love".

When Tom Hooker was credited for vocals at all, it was only for background vocals, as it was the producer's intention to have the lip-synching model Stefano Zandri as the public face of the project.

In 2010, Tom Hooker recorded and published on YouTube a press conference-style video in which Hooker, flanked by Den Harrow co-producer Miki Chierigato, states and demonstrates that he was the vocalist on most of the Den Harrow records, and in which he accuses Stefano Zandri of continuing to publicly lip synch to those recordings.

In 1994, Tom Hooker left the music scene to move to America to marry Suzanne Berquist.

Tom Hooker eventually moved to Los Angeles and changed his name to Thomas Barbey, his mother's maiden name.

Tom Hooker began a career as a visual artist, creating surreal photomontages.

In October 2010, Tom Hooker collaborated with his longtime musical colleague and fellow composer, Miki Chieregato, to produce and release a brand new single and video, "Change Your Mind".

In 2011, Tom Hooker released a new recording and music video of the Den Harrow track "Future Brain", which features himself.