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.