Tom Heyes grew up and still resides in Great Barr, Birmingham, England. Tom first got into music playing the Recorder. Eventually he moved onto the Clarinet, and later on Saxophone. Tom has a Grade 5 for Clarinet and Grade 4 for Saxophone. Whilst learning to play these instruments, Tom started to get interested in Big Band and Jazz music particularly by Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman, and so started to play/learn a lot of their songs.

Singing however came much later. Just before finishing Secondary School in 2008/09, Tom started to get interested and listen to songs by crooners such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bobby Darin (later getting interested in other music genres - Soul, Pop and Rock & Roll). Eventually he started to sing as a hobby in private teaching myself - listening to the music and picking up the notes and lyrics.

His first public performance was in May 2011 being booked for a 15 minute slot during a church fete at St Paul's Church Hall, Hamstead. This would continue gradually over the years more as a hobby until later on.

From October 2012, Tom started going to a new regular open-mic night event called ‘The Blue Monkey Club’, at Great Barr Con Club, where he was able to get more experience singing on stage and experiement with new musical material. Tom will still ocassionally perform at the BMC, trying out new songs for future bookings and appearances.

Whilst studying at Wolverhampton University, as part of one of the course's modules, Tom and his University Class were required to set up a public exhibition for each and needed to raise the funds themselves. As part of the fundraising Tom would do two Song & Dance concerts. The first was held at a St Bartholomew's Church Hall in Penn, Wolverhampton and the second was at the Great Barr Con Club.

Tom would start to go professional after leaving university and now performs at a variety of venues such as parties & other functions, several of the Sandwell Libraries as well as doing a couple of shows a year at the local Great Barr Con Club

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