Tommy and jane emmanuel and tommy thomas

Emmanuel first started playing at the age of four. It was a family affair, with Tommy on rhythm guitar, Phil on lead guitar, Chris on drums, and Virginia on Hawaiian steel guitar. He and his wife Jane have a daughter named Amanda, and he still performs with his brother Phil.

William Thomas Emmanuel AM

As a young boy, Tommy practiced an average of 16 hours a day, sometimes in pubs. Early in his career, it was evident that he was very ambitious. He has worked with many renown artists in the music industry and has composed and arranged many successful songs. At the end of the day, the thing that pulls it all together is my sense of melody.

Marvin of The Shadows. That lovely fingerpicking led to my picking up the guitar. They play seamlessly, with a great deal of humor. It is made by Maton, a Melbourne company in Australia. It is his instrument of choice and he owns about eight of them. In June , he was playing a Takamine guitar. At that time, the owner of the company approached him and asked if they could develop a model that met his high playing standards.

It is estimated that over have been made. Today, Emmanuel acts as a consultant to the company to ensure the model guitar maintains its high degree of sound quality and payability. In a dream to play with an orchestra was made possible with the production of the album Classical Gas, which received widespread fame and went gold in Australia.