Born in the sleepy, working-class hamlet of Port Jefferson, NY, Tommy Henriksen was one of five children raised by a single mother who worked multiple jobs to support his family. Henriksen's love of music eventually led him to California, where he toiled unsuccessfully in the Los Angeles music scene before finally returning to New York City in 1991. He found work in construction, but never let his dream of a music career fall far from sight, and enjoyed a brief stint as a guitar and keyboard technician for Alice Cooper. As fortune would have it, Henriksen soon met British musi...